Out of range - Monitor

I got with a strange out of range (Frequency 90Hz/120Hz). This happened when the screen resolution was changed to a high resolution that is not supported by the monitor and then you end up seeing this on your screen. I spent quite sometime fixing this up. Finally here is the solution that got it back to working again.

a) Reboot the PC.

b) Once the computer is booting up press F8 or the function key that lets you to a menu which can start your computer in Safe Mode.

Among Safe mode there will be other options like 

a) Safe Mode

b) Safe Mode with Command Prompt

c) Safe Mode with Networking.

d) Normal Start up

e) Last good known configuration.

Select a and while the computer is booting up in safe mode, immediately press F8 this will show advanced options. Some stupid way to get to advanced options.

You will see a screen that would allow you to start the computer in VGA Mode. With VGA mode the screen resolution is auto set to 640 X 480 which works on all monitors. This will start the computer in VGA mode.

Once the system is up and running do the following

a) Go to desktop

b) Right click , Properties.

c) In Properties select Settings tab and choose 800 X 600 or the last known resolution that worked on your monitor.

d) Click Advanced 

e) In Compatibility section select Ask me before applying the new settings.

f) Press OK and your new resolution will be in safe mode.

Now you can reboot the computer and start in normal mode.

Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V can be useful !

Ever got annoyed working on remote machines using for example Windows Remote desktop when you are not able to copy and paste text from remote desktop to local machine or vice versa ?

In order to get remote copy paste working make sure rdpclip.exe (Remote Clipboard) is running on remote desktop which will enable copy pate from remote desktop to local desktop and rdpclip.exe is running on local desktop which will enable copy pate from local desktop to remote desktop. In order to run rdpclip.exe just go to Windows + R (Run window) and run rdpclip.exe.

Once running you can now copy paste texts from remote to local desktop or vice versa.

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Burning a bootable XP

I know most of them will ask Why Windows, I still prefer windows over linux when doing mundane tasks with my PCs. and i know XP has been replaced by Vista, but my PC runs XP better than Vista. I am sure most of them haven't upgraded their PCs to match vista requirements so here it goes.

After burning 3 cds and reading number of in-complete articles about creating bootable CD, i was finally able to learn the procedure of creating a bootable cd with XP. And now sharing which would save your time and CDs.

I used Nero 7.11.10 to create bootable CD.

1) Start Nero Express
2) Click on button with left arrow that would turn right on click.
3) Click on Switch to Nero Burning ROM and in meanwhile download boot.ima (Click on the link)
4) From compilation list select CD-ROM(Boot).
5) There are 4 tabs that needs to be configured as follows
   a) Boot Tab
       For boot image , give the path of the boot image that you downloaded in Step 3 and configure the rest of    the configuration for boot tab as shown in image below

      b) ISO Tab: Configure as shown below

                                        
      c) Label Tab: Configure as shown below

                                        
          d) Burn Tab: Configure as shown below

                                        

6) Now click on New and drag the contents of your original XP CD into the project for burning and click before you click on Burn re-check the four tabs.

I hope this will save few of your cd's and time.

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