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can any one help me? i'm trying to run back track of a live CD
but every time it boots up, it keeps telling me frequency out of range
any suggestions

foxecks,

from memory that seems to be a display error. Have you tried the same CD on different hardware?

Try booting Backtrack in safemode, can't remember the exact cheat code but I believe BT3 has an option in the boot menu for this by default. If this boots successfully you can then work backwards by adding back in hardware modules until you locate the module causing issues.

If this doesn't help I'd suggest posting your problem on the backtrack forums as the guys are usually fairly helpful.

Good luck and welcome to EH-net
RR

i got it to work on my laptop,but know i just can,t figure out how to get my wifi up and runing

Hi,

Check out the info I've left in your other post (http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/topic,2754.msg12640/#msg12640)

have you scoped out the backtrack forums?

http://forums.remote-exploit.org/

Hi there!

I find the same error when trying to run backtrack with an old monitor. I believe the vertical sync frequency of the monitor is out of backtrack's frequency range (backtrack 3 uses 85 Hz @ 1024x768 resolution). And I cannot set the frequency to a lower one, say 65 Hz, from within backtrack O/S.

The good news is I don't find the same problem when running backtrack with newer monitors, or when running backtrack via VMWare. So may be you should try it with vmware first.