newbie problem - booting from cd

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Ravi Vishnu wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to linux. I have a windows XP pc. 
> I have just succeeded in burning the 7.04 version onto a cd. I have  checked with md5 and the downloaded version was OK. I then tried to boot from the cd. I got the following message on the screen :
> Out of Range
> Set Monitor to
> 1280x1024 at 60 Hz
> After this, the pc just hung up.
> There does not seem to be anything in the documentation to help me.
> Please let me know how I can get around this problem and get on to trying out Linux.
> Thanking You,
> Ravi

It would  be worth to try choosing the
Safe Graphics mode
on the live CD initial menu choices I think.
hth
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