monitor out-of-range message black screen

[rogerdw]

I recently installed Mint 11 64 on an HP desktop with AMD chip. The Live CD runs fine, I installed to hard disk and rebooted. I get a blck screen and a message saying monitor out of range please reset to 1680x1050 but I don't know how to do that when the screen is black. NVIDIA GeForce 6100 card. Any help greatly appreciated. This also happens with other distros as well.

Thanks

[xenopeek]

Hold shift during boot, to get the GRUB boot menu to show. Does this work, or do you also get the out-of-range error? If not, press Tab to edit the boot parameters. Scroll down to the line starting with "linux" and replace "quiet splash" on that line with "nomodeset" (without the quotes).

That should allow you to boot. After booting, run Update Manager (shield icon in lower right on the panel). Either that will resolve it by updating the open-source driver for the Nvidia hardware. Else, Menu > Control Center > Additional Drivers, and install the closed-source driver for the Nvidia hardware.

Edit: corrected how to change the boot parameters after installation.

[rogerdw]

Thank you. I''l give it a go tonight!

[rogerdw]

I press the shift key and then I get a grub loading message and after 1 or 2 seconds it goes to the out-of-range black screen

[xenopeek]

Okay, to fix this you need to boot from the Live CD again and change your GRUB configuration on the harddisk to use a plain text mode instead of a graphics mode. Then follow this guide on how to chroot from the Live CD to your root partition on the harddisk, so that you can change the GRUB settings there. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#ChRoot

BUT!
After step 7, before step 8, do:

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gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

And uncomment the following line (remove the # in front of it):

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#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

If there also is a line starting with GRUB_GFXMODE in that file, comment that (place a # in front of it).

After that, you can save & close the file and do:

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sudo update-grub

Then you are done. So do not continue after doing the above, so just follow the guide I linked to to step 7 and then do the above. Reboot to see if this works.