Monitor Calibration

[Noel_Carboni]

Given that Windows 7 is only released to Technet subscribers, and is SERIOUSLY new at this point, I wouldn't doubt that there are these possibilities:

1. The calibrator isn't doing everything needed to keep Windows 7 happy, because the calibrator software writers by definition have very little experience with Windows 7.

2. Windows 7 itself is corrupting its calibration. Color calibration is still a dark art.

3. Windows 7 may be having trouble with the video drivers and/or video card firmware, leading to resets of calibrations, settings, etc. as the system tries to auto-recover from faults.

Do you know what kind of video interface "card" your computer has? I frequent the Windows 7 Technet forums and I am reading about more problems with nVidia drivers and cards than others.

-Noel


P.S., I applaud your willingness to embrace new technology. Windows 7 has a lot of promise.

[simsale]

Hello,

Thank you all for your responses!

Today I have brought the calibrator to my office and connected my LCD external screen. Calibrating this one with ColorEye seems fine. (I mean I don't know how fine, but...not violet, looking normal!)

I don't know what could be the difference? My laptop's screen is not supposed to be that bad, it's a HP8510p laptop and the screen is a wideangle-view one.

Can I do something about this, or is it just a bad laptop screen? I can't just believe that.

I am editing on an LCD usually, but...sometimes I only have the laptop because I travel a lot, so I'd like to have at least something acceptable...

I am using an ATI graphics card Radeon HD2600. Previously I had also used their Spyder2 express software to calibrate, but it was even more disastrous, extremely warm colours, that's why I changed to ColorEyes in the first place.

BTW, have I done right?
Possibility A: Calibrate Monitor to D65 (6500K) and leave it.
Possibility B: Pre-Calibrate Monitor to D65 White point and then make the calibration to Native White point?

Possibility A gave a greenish tint. Possibility B looks by far better, but I am not sure I did correctly, the pre-calibration never stopped, it just said accept all the time, so after a while i stopped it and then calibrated to Native White.

Thank you very much!
Simone

[simsale]

Hello,

anyone of you has still an idea for the calibration issue?
It works when I calibrate another LCD screen (external), but gives violet blues for my laptop screen?

Is it the screen? But if it is capable of showing blue, how is it possible?

Now I will also write to the ColorEyes Forum. I apologize for the delay, I have been travelling to Europe.

Thank you very much!
Simone