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Tweaking set safe mode resolution too high
Boggin:
The two main laptops that I use date from 2011 have been upgraded to Win 10 from Win 7 and I have another Win 7 one which was bought in 2010 and neither have had any trouble when using the program to boot into Safe Mode.
I'm still waiting for some feed back as to why the program could have screwed your graphics.
Can you create a system repair disk and create a system image and try the program on another machine.
SFSecurity:
Sorry, haven’t had the time to dig into why it happened, but I found one possible clue as to what happened. It appears that the issue might be the frequency was getting set higher than the monitor could handle. The monitor can’t handle higher than 60 Hz.
Also, the computer dates from 2009 or 2010, so it might be an issue with the motherboard. I haven’t been able to get it back to the proper resolution, 1600x1080, and can’t figure out why.
Boggin:
I was under the impression that the resolution was fine in normal mode ?
Safe Mode is usually 800x600 - at least it is on my laptops as it uses the onboard VGA.
Boggin:
On checking my Win 10 laptop, Safe Mode defaults to 1024x768 with the option to reduce to 800x600 whereas my Win 7 laptop defaults to 800x600 but has a slider to increase to 1024x768.
As you are unable to get into Safe Mode then you won't be able check/set that resolution.
Boggin:
It would seem that the solution to "out of range" is what jpm had posted earlier, which is to go Start - type msconfig - right click on msconfig and select Run as administrator, then check the box for Base Video under the Boot tab and then reboot.
I'm not sure if this will fix it for Safe Mode, but give it a try.
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