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Need help with Spyder Pro 2

2006-12-25 by Phiegze

I can NOT make both my monitors look the same!
Can someone here help with some experience?

I can ask teck support after the holiday but I'd like to get my new
device working now. (Beside, my experience so far is that their tech
support if rather lame.)

So here is the setup:


With XPpro I have two Samsung 213t monitors running on one Asus EAX
1600xt graphics card.  

One monitor is running analog and one digital.
One is one yr. older than the other.
There are slight differenced in the presets possible depending on
Analog or Digital, but basically they both start out pretty much the
same before profiling.

I remove the Catalyst control panel as I have read that can be a
problem when there are two many bits of software trying to run
profiles. I'm trying to keep it simple.

I've used the Sypder in a darkened room multiple times on each monitor
but I had to disable my primary monitor to force the Spyder to proflie
my secondary one. After I named and saved the secondary profile I
re-enabled both monitors and assigned the correct profile to the each
monitor.

Consistently, the Primary (digital) monitor has a yellowish cast and
the analog one seems more correctly white (to my eyes).

Which one is right?  Can I trust EITHER one?  ( I think not if they
are not the same the tool obviously failed. ) 

And mostly, what can I do to make this expensive tool work.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for whatever you come up with.  I doubt I am the
first with this problem?

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