Out of Range Error on Monitor (win7)

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We've got two PCs with different motherboards, graphic cards, HDDs, etc.

PC1: HDD1: Maxtor - SATA - 240 GB - Win XP - Partition Drives C,D,E
PC2: HDD2: Samsung - SATA - 500 GB - Win 7 - Partition Drives C,D,E,F

Both HDDs have been bought almost 5 years ago.
Now I want to have the both hard drives in PC1.

I mounted and screwed the HDD2 on PC1 and plugged its SATA and power cables. When I booted the system, I entered the BIOS settings and set the first booting priority to HDD2 (win 7).

The Problem:

When I power on my PC, it starts to load the win 7, and the progress bar appears. But instead of showing the welcome screen, the following error appears:

Out of Range
63.7 khz / 60 hz

and nothing else comes. This error remains on the screen forever!


I searched a lot for this error on the internet. Almost all of them say that this error is because of the screen resolution and the refresh rate. They suggest to load the system in safe mode with lower resolution (640x480) so as to be able to change its resolution settings in safe mode.

But the problem is that when I enter the safe mode with lower resolution, although the welcome screen appears, but again that "Out of Range" error comes!

I know that this error is probably because of different graphic cards, different display adapters, and different resolution settings. But when I can't enter even the safe mode, how can I disable/uninstall/change these settings?

What should I do now?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Win 7 on HDD2 is set up for the hardware in PC2 - the motherboard drivers, the graphics card drivers and so on. You can't just put HDD2 in PC1 and expect it to work - very occasionally you might get somewhere, but more often you get errors, as in this case.

There's no sensible way of repairing this. If you want Win7 on HDD2 in PC1, you need to reinstall Win7 on HDD2 whilst it's in PC1, preferably after formatting HDD2. If you've data on there you want to keep, boot into XP and transfer it to HDD1 or back it up. When you install Win7 on HDD2, I also suggest removing HDD1 before the installation and not returning it until Win7 is up and working, otherwise you'll likely run into other issues.
 
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Thanks @Moonstick2 for your helpful reply.

Actually, I tried to boot into XP and transfer my data from HDD2 to HDD1; but unfortunately, win XP freezes each time its desktop appears (as described here).

Installing win 7 again is an optimal solution, but because of some data in its C drive, I can't do it right now. I have to transfer those data in drive C to other drives, before formatting C and re-installing win 7.

However, it's really surprising that I can't boot even in safe mode with lower resolution.
What might cause this?
 
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It could be because the monitor .inf file and settings installed to that version of Windows is different than the monitor you are trying to use, it is out of spec for that monitor. This is just 1 of the MANY reasons we tell you that you cannot just move a Windows install from 1 PC to another.
 
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Thanks @jitpublisher for your reply.
What you say is probably correct.

But the point is that when I try to boot in safe mode with lower resolutions, then only the very basic and essential drivers must be loaded. So theoretically it must be independent of the graphics card, monitor, adapters, drivers, etc.
 
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I'm sure I used a monitor in the past where the 'out of range' message also appeared if there was no output whatsoever coming from the PC. You're assuming that Win7 is working and trying to output a video signal, but I think it's crashing heavily.

Even in Safe Mode, Windows needs some drivers to work with the hardware. It's designed to enable a user to deal with faulty software or hardware peripherals, but I very much doubt that it's designed to cope with an entirely different motherboard. I can imagine it being the sort of thing that sometimes works, sometimes doesn't depending on how different the new motherboard is.

Anyway, from your other thread you've copied your old files across, so just reinstall Win7 with HDD2 in PC1, being sure to the take HDD1 out first.
 
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