New LCD monitor: "Out of Range" at bootup

try sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg in a shell.

It should help you to reconfigure ubuntu display in text mode. Hope that it helps you. Don't forget to restart at less the xserver after.

Does it had resolved your problem or not ? Please feed back and mark it as answered if it is resolved, it helps us a lot when a problem came again because we resolve it faster. Thanks.

Sorry, not yet used with the new system. The question "Does it had resolved your problem ?" is an information request.

I had almost the exact same issue. Existing install from CRT, upgraded to LCD.
This worked for me, although I booted to the rescue image or whatever it's called from the GRUB menu.

I'm having this same problem, but I can't even get a shell to open.

I boot, it does the loading bar and then goes straight to "Out of Range"

I'm having this same problem, but I can't even get a shell to open.

I boot, it does the loading bar and then goes straight to "Out of Range"

Please try to press CTRL+ALT+"+" and/or CTRL+ALT+"-" to dynamically change video frequency
or press CTRL+ALT+BKSPACE to restart graphics layer.

Reconfiguring your xserver-xorg may help you.

A) ---- If you can view graphics Gnome desktop

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal
and jump to step C

B) ---- If you cannot view graphics Gnome desktop

Please press CTRL+ALT+F2 and make login with your user and password
and go on to step C

C) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

To make a backup copy of your actual /etc/X11/xorg.conf type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.bak

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then try to reconfigure your xserver-xorg

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

answer to the simply questions, then restart the pc.

If something goes wrong you can restore the saved copy of your old configuration, open a terminal or login to a virtual terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 and type:

cd /etc/X11
sudo cp xorg.conf.bak xorg.conf

and restart the pc, type:

sudo reboot

Then try to use displayconfig-gtk: Simple gtk tool to change xserver settings like graphics card driver or monitor.

-- Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type or better copy and paste:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install displayconfig-gtk

-- give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then to configure your monitor resolution:

sudo displayconfig-gtk

then try to select and configure your monitor from the list or try to define your monitor by putting the inf file take from xp driver cd or floppy or from the net. If you are introuble due low resolution to push hidden botton out of the screen visual try to press
the ALT key on keyboard and drag the working windows to get access to buttons.

Reboot your pc.

Then go to menu System → Preferences → Screen resolution to try to get high screen resolution setup

Try more than once and keep the resolution/refresh frequency to the lowest value, then choose a high value and retry.

If this solves you problem, please mark as Solved. If not, please clarify your question.

hope this helps

Recently I replaced my Viewsonic E790 CRT monitor (1600x1200) with a BenQ G2200W LCD monitor (1680x1050) and was experiencing an "out of range" error on the monitor during boot up.

I found another piece of the solution at the following link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-604216.html

Basically the piece I was missing was:

1) Edit the /etc/usplash.conf file to set:
     xres=1680
     yres=1050

2) Force recognition of this change with the following command:
     sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh usplash

Hope that helps other people with this problem. I searched for a long, long time before finding this usplash.conf piece that fixes the problem with "out of range" while linux is booting.

hi all, i have the worse situation. I tried to install ubuntu 9.04 in my university computer. The message "out of range" also appears but the big problem here is when the message comes out, the system also hangs, that mean i cannot press any button on the keyboard ( no Ctrl + Alt + F2). What should i do now ? There is no problem when using live cd