Laptop screen malfunctions when pressing on keyboard

So this has been happening for a few months. It used to happen if I picked the laptop up at the left corner - the screen would pixelate like this and I need to power it down. Now it happened from just using the keyboard when lowering the brightness and I snagged a quick picture. Now it seems to boot up, but the computer screen does not come on. Is this a catastrophic malfunction? Will I be able to hook it up and possibly recover files before recycling this old one and getting a new one?

u/lightning_rose — 3 months ago