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Boot from USB drive on Dell XPS 12

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Hello!

I bought a True Image 2013 license and I've installed it on my new Dell XPS 12. Today I create a USB drive in order to boot True Image, so I can restore my backup in case of failure of the internal SSD.
But...it seems that True Image 2013 doesn't render on my graphics card (Intel HD4000, 1920x1080) in my ultrabook. When boot start, I choose True Image from the boot menu, but the graphics is corrupted.

Here a photo:
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=c6f1a92a98e555e9&id=C6F1A92A98E555E9%213…

Any idea? Can I modify some text files on the USB drive to solve the problem?
Maybe I need to specify screen resolution.

Please help me!!!

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I already try to press F11 in the True Image boot menu: no effect.
I try to make another USB drive specifying "vga=ask" when requested: no effect.

I couldn't access your link. Did you put it in your public folder?

I guess you have seen that:

http://kb.acronis.com/content/2921

Opppsss, my fault, the url for the photo is not public. Please try that:
http://download.vivendobyte.net/trueimage_xps12.jpg

This is a photo of the display of my Dell XPS 12 when True Image is supposed to be started. The graphics is totally corrupted and the software is unusable! :-((

I already read the KB article you reported, but if I press F11 in selection screen nothing happens. I can't write "vga=ask", no vga modes is listed on the screen. Maybe can I modify some config file on the USB drive to force True Image to use a more standard screen resolution?

You might have to change the key assignment?

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3564

Yeah!!!! Problem solved!!!! :-))
The problem is not the key assignment.

The problem is that Dell XPS 12 boots using UEFI mode. This mode is very good for Windows 8, but cause some problem with True Image.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface

If I switch to Legacy Mode in BIOS, True Image boots normally!

Interesting. I thought about UEFI versus legacy in your case, but then I thought that, since you could see the boot menu which indicates that the CD was actually booting, UEFI versus Legacy would not be the issue.

I know this is an old thread. But it does come up first in Google when searching for problems with XPS12 and ATI garbled display.

Someone has figured it out, put vga=0x31B as boot param, it worked for me with ATI 2014

credit to http://blog.boyet.com/blog/blog/upgrading-the-ssd-in-the-dell-xps-12-nd…