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My mother's computer was slow to load AOL this morning (last night all was working fine). She restarted the computer, and during shutdown it showed a message stating "out of range". I do not know the range numbers. What caused this, and how do I fix it??
That message usually means that the monitor is not getting any signal from the PC. If the normal startup beep is not heard, the chances are that the motherboard/CPU or power supply has died.
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Ham you may be correct but I beg to differ with you. The same thing happened to my neighbor who bought a brand new HP Pavilion and Westinghouse LCD. When she tried to use the Fast User switching feature or the Winkey+L, she suddenly gotten Out of Range error message (like BSOD). The LCd stood frozen. She had to hold the power on/off button to shutdown the PC and then restart it. All is OK now. In retrospective I think the culprit is with LCD monitors.
i_XpUser
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The reason why I think it's the LCD monitor is that since the LCD native resolution is fixed at 1280X1034 maximum, it is incapable of remapping the resolution to (I believe)800X600 that you get when you switch to the Welcome screen.
i_XpUser
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XPUser, you are correct. There are some less likely things that can cause the 'Out of Range' message. The fact that it was working fine the previous night when turned off and failed the next morning indicates that a resolution change was not made.
Also notice that I said 'usually'.
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I go along with this, except to say that the native screen size will depend on your LCD monitor size. For instance, mine is 1024x768 so this is my own particular maximum.
DerekW
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One more comment. Don't be misled by the "Out of Range" message. You get that warning when there is no signal to the monitor. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's getting a signal, but it's out of range.
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Hold on folks - i may be new to this but i think we need to re-read the original message....... first of all i don't see anything to indicate that this was even an lcd monitor. secondly, hww states that the problem occured when the computer was being shut off, not on, which would mean a little different problem or maybe not even a problem at all unless of course the computer then restarted in that vegitative state. if it did then might i suggest safe mode and try to reset the monitor properties or change the resolution? once again assuming the card did not take a dump. you can also get that message if the video driver somehow got corrupted as well. trs80's never had that problem!!!! that's my 2 cents worth. great forum people!!!
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BELIEVER IN G
Don't be coy about being new to this. You made two very good points which showed how easy it is for a forum to drift away from the details given in the original question. Nice one.
DerekW
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I met this message twice in a month.
I had just use the Windows Update function on two different PC.
They may reboot. After shutdown they don't boot again and I was delivered a "out of range message".
I'm very dubitative...
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One more comment. Don't be misled by the "Out of Range" message. You get that warning when there is no signal to the monitor. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's getting a signal, but it's out of range.
Above makes the most sense to me! However what to do about it remains a mistery to me!
I get the out of Range panel mostly when I start up after my PC has been inactive, like over night. But also while on line and a freeze up occurs! Thus to me "Freeze up" is the same as "Out of range" ???New for now!
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Hello, Ok so far this forum has been with windows Out Of Range messages. Now I give you SUSE 10.0. I tried to install this on my network server, and once I was done, I had this Message. So i booted into SUSE-failsafe. That then returns the bash command prompt. I know a little bash, so i tried startkde, It tried to start, and than a error message occured saying that X server was started and than X server wasd shut down, now those of you who have no linux experence, X is the linux windows system. So When i boot up it will show all the options i have, and when i select SUSE 10.0, it will give me the Out of range message, So anyone know how to get back to GUI, so i casn get out of BASH?
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My computer shuts itself down. I attempt to reboot and receive "out or range" message. In P O S T, I receive One beep. After many attempts, I could not reboot. I thought this was a memory issue. I have 2 1gb sticks on a Two channel ASUS MB with 4 RAM slots. As an experiment, I moved the sticks over to the vacant slots and rebooted. It worked fine but the same spontaneous shutdown and "out of range" message was repeated. Graphics are also distorded on boot up with the error message. When Win XP "swipes on startup", the colors are smeared.
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Stephanie Trapasso
This "W95/98" thread is about to die (to look at only). Few helpers will visit it now and no two problems are ever exactly alike.
Best bet is to select your OS at top left (sounds like XP) and start a new post.
DerekW
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