Beg or borrow or build a boot disk and start it with that if still no screen, your screen is likely dead. This assumes that when you press the start button you're still getting the green lights indicating it's on and hard drive activity has started etc.
If you do not have a boot disk but you have an XP setup CD you can try booting with that and then shutting it off rather than going through the install. Also if you ever made an antivirus recovery cd, or one with an imaging program or partitioning program, you could boot with that to see if your screen works.
If the screen is truly dead then you have to weigh the costs of replacing the screen (not hard at all if you're mechanically inclined although the screws are tiny) versus the cost of simply replacing the whole laptop.
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