calibrating a second monitor hooked to a laptop
2008-05-19 by sdorsett1957
I need to know what product to purchase, if any, in the Spyder line which will solve the folloing problem. Currently I have Spyder 2 Suite and have been happy with it. I have a Dell Precision 4300 laptop and recently purchased a Dell stand alone 24 inch monitor for editing pictures. The monitor works fine with the laptop. The laptop is runing Vista. I loaded the Spyder 2 Suite and calibrated my laptop montor, so far, so good. Then I wanted to calibrate the 24 inch monitor. My laptop does not have 2 video cards and I realize after reading on many discussion boards, that I cannot have 2 profiles. I can move icons, etc to the 24 inch by dragging it across but even when I did this with the Spyder software, it will only come up and run on the laptop. I tried making the 24 inch the Main monitor, this didn't work either. I just want the 24 inch to be calibrated, I don't really care if the laptop is or isnt. I tried a variety of things to get the software to work only on the 24 inch monitor and could not. Is there a solution with Spyder in another version?