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HP S2031 LCD MONITOR displays "Input signal out of range - Change resolution..Then boots directly into Ubuntu" in Dual boot setup: Windows 7 Home Premium/ubuntu 12.04 LTS ever since 12.04LTS was installed on 22 July 2012 on Compaq CQ5320F.

Asked by OKIE1935

Have been running dual-boot: Windows 7 Home Premium/Ubuntu 10.04LTS - since 2010. Installed Ubuntu 12.04LTS on 22 July 2012, and have been unable to boot into Windows since. On boot-up, I get the message "Input signal out of range - Change resolution to 1600 X 900 @ 60Hz." This message stays on the screen for a long period, then system boots into Ubuntu 12.04LTS, with no opportunity to boot into Windows at all (i.e. no grub boot screen showing my various options to boot. Have tried "Restoring Ubuntu" as shown on page 80 of Ubuntu User,Summer 2012) - with no improvement, and have booted up using the "Compaq Presario CQ5320F Bootable Disk" I made in 2010 when I first bought this computer - to evaluate the hardware (it only evaluated the computer, and very little of the monitor) -- none of which helped with my problem. Have also gone into the computer Bios and looked for any settings that might help--none of this helped at all!
HARDWARE: Compaq CQ5320F computer; 3GB Ram; AMD Athlon(tm) II X@ 240 Processor X2; 500GB Hard Drive - Partitioned 250/250 split between Windows 7 Home Premium & Ubuntu 12.04LTS & HP DVD/CD-RW Drive.
MONITOR: HP S2031 20" LCD Monitor.

Question: What can I do to restore the Dual-Boot capability -- Any help would be appreciated!

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Since seems a video issue please tell some about your video card...

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#2

When does the message appear in the bootup process? What did you see just before it?
What happens when you hold down Shift while booting?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Windows can tell you the video chip...

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OKIE1935 (cornfed) said : 		#4

11 August 2012:

{Marco Braida} - Video card: Hardinfo reports: "VGA compatible controller - NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SEnForce430] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])"
Don't know if this is needed, but also: Domain = 0; Bus, device, function = 0, 13, 0; OEM Vendor = Hewlett-Packard (www.hp.com); IRQ = 21; Bus Master = Yes; Memory = 16MB (32-bit, non-prefetchable); Kernel modules = nouveau, nvidiafb -- Operating system (as previously mentioned) is Ubuntu 12.04LTS, 64-bit.

{Thomas Kruger} - All from cold start-up: 1) Message appears in bootup process - Immediately after Boot-time Diagnostic Screen (I have set BIOS to display this screen since the problem occurred). 2) What did I see just before the message - Only the Boot-time Diagnostic Screen mentioned above! 3) When I hold down the Shift while booting - Nothing - Same as without holding down the Shift button!

{actionparsnip} - ****** Problem is not being able to boot into Windows in the Dual-Boot configuration, as indicated in the original question, so it is impossible to get the video chip information from Windows as you state.

Hope this is sufficient information. Thanks for any help...Jack Landers (<email address hidden>)

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Best Kamil Piszczek (kamilos5555) said : 		#5

you can run windows,but you can't see bootloader. try use arrows to set starting system to windows like in the past.
try use "grub-install" to recovery bootloader
you can set windows as default system using "grub-set-default"

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OKIE1935 (cornfed) said : 		#6

Thanks, Kamil - Used the down arrow (once) and was shown display of Ubuntu Recovery Menu [i.e. 'resume, clean, dpkg, grub, fsck, network, root, & System-Summary]. -- Used clean, dpkg, and System-Summary to perform their operations, then used grub to "Update grub bootloader". This displayed the following: "Generating grub.cfg --
1. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic
1a. Found linux image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic
2. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuzp3.2.0-27-generic
2a. Found linux image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-27-generic
3. Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-generic
3a. Found linux image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-23-generic
4. Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
5. Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
6. Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda3
done
Finished please press ENTER
     After viewing System-Summary, I re-booted the system, used the Down Arrow to go down five (5) times {Note #5 above) and got "Welcome to Windows 7" !
Did not use the "grub-install", as Grub2 is already installed, and, unless I'm mistaken, this could mess-up my grub2 installation; and since I really don't want Windows to be my default system, I didn't use "grub-set-default"!
     Would really like to be able to see the grub screen displaying the boot-up choices I have, but will live with this system until I know how to achieve that!

Again, thamks very much, Kamil.

Jack Landers

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

Run:

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.2.0-27-generic linux-image-3.2.0-23-generic
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

And it will clear the unused kernels out

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OKIE1935 (cornfed) said : 		#8

Thanks for the suggestion, Andrew, but I actually prefer to keep a couple of older images handy.

Jack Landers

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

That's fine, just means you have to scroll more to boot the other OS, they don't hurt :)