Flatron LG monitor - laptop compatibility

I have had a little accident recently. I was drinking something, and then I got startled(no, it wasn't an earthquake), and spilled this liquid into the guts of my laptop, burning it's screen. You can now only see horizontal lines going all over it, but at least it doesn't flicker like mad, which it used to do the first two days after the accident. I took this with a little humor, after all, it's already in the past and I can focus on quick resolution of this problem. While I was looking for an external monitor, I actually got a break from the computer which has been great for my eyes! The monitor I got was LG flatron 17" screen. I couldn't connect it at first because on the boot, the screen all of a sudden would go black and display: "Analogue going to power saving mode" message, which would puzzle me. I didn't know the screen can be this smart and actually decide on it's own when to go to "sleep" just to save me a little power. Since I wasn't greatful for such thoughtfullness, I wanted to disable this function as soon as possible. So, if you've got the same problem, here's the solution. In order to switch to an external monitor, all you have to do is type the following: "Function-F4" and poof! You'll enable the external monitor like magic.