You got to get a replacement screen or a new laptop/notebook/netbook. A generic screen usally has a lot of problems, unless emachine customer service says that there is a generic compatable screen that works. Doubt it though. You can always hook it up to a flat screen and take off the laptop screen part.

Also for 300$ you can get a ACER Netbook AOD250 it has 1GB DDR2 and a Intel Atom Processor 1.66 GHz with 2 threads.

Hope that helps. :)