Hi a little help or better still some information would greatly be appreciated, I have just built myself a new PC, the specifications are.
AMD quad core 9550,
Gigabyte GA – MA 770 – DS3.
Four gigabytes of DDR-2 1066MHz ram (I can add more when I moved to 64-bit operating system)
600 watt power supply.
Four one terabyte HDD’s Sata 11 (I haven’t decided whether to run them in a raid configurations or not yet)
And the video card is a PCI-E 2 8400 NVIDIA chipset with 256 MB of DDR 2 ram this is where the question of help is needed both my monitors are capable of being run in DVI my video card has both types of connecters DVI and the older system.
I have both types of connections on the back of my monitor and the appropriate cables is it easier to calibrate a monitor that is being supplied by a digital signal instead of the older analog signal.
Phil.
Posted by Ian Andrews on October 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM
It depends to an extent on your calibration system. I have a simple Spyder 2 that will only calibrate one monitor but by un-plugging the other I can do one at a time. Each is as simple as the other.
HIH
Hi thanks Ian I have a 23 inch widescreen Samsung tft &a 19 inch Samsung with the analog system I am running now in theory it is only possible with XP Pro to have one monitor correctly calibrated, this doesn't really bother me as I tend to use the 23 inch most of the time as there is plenty of real estate.
I use a spyder also to calibrated and from what you say it appears to be just as easily to do it digitally as opposed to a analog output.
Phil.
Posted by John Kerr on October 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Hi Phil
Im using a 24" Dell calibrated with an X-Rite system. When the monitor is connected to the digital output I lose the ability to adjust the contrast. Adjustment is available when connected to the analogue output. Monaco/X-Rite recommend connecting to the digital output.
John
Posted by Andy Astbury on October 16, 2008 at 3:44 AM
Phil, I have the digital o/p connected to my 26" HP and the analogue o/p to my 19".
I never cal the 19" as it only ever holds the desktop or CS3 tools palette.
Make sure Bibble is using the 'new' monitor profile under Preferences>Display - I actually play it safe and give my calibration profile a name other than "Default" (WORK.ICC actually) then I know for sure that everything is set up properly.
Discussion
4 repliesAMD quad core 9550,
Gigabyte GA – MA 770 – DS3.
Four gigabytes of DDR-2 1066MHz ram (I can add more when I moved to 64-bit operating system)
600 watt power supply.
Four one terabyte HDD’s Sata 11 (I haven’t decided whether to run them in a raid configurations or not yet)
And the video card is a PCI-E 2 8400 NVIDIA chipset with 256 MB of DDR 2 ram this is where the question of help is needed both my monitors are capable of being run in DVI my video card has both types of connecters DVI and the older system.
I have both types of connections on the back of my monitor and the appropriate cables is it easier to calibrate a monitor that is being supplied by a digital signal instead of the older analog signal.
Phil.
HIH
Ian
I use a spyder also to calibrated and from what you say it appears to be just as easily to do it digitally as opposed to a analog output.
Phil.
Im using a 24" Dell calibrated with an X-Rite system. When the monitor is connected to the digital output I lose the ability to adjust the contrast. Adjustment is available when connected to the analogue output. Monaco/X-Rite recommend connecting to the digital output.
John
I never cal the 19" as it only ever holds the desktop or CS3 tools palette.
Make sure Bibble is using the 'new' monitor profile under Preferences>Display - I actually play it safe and give my calibration profile a name other than "Default" (WORK.ICC actually) then I know for sure that everything is set up properly.