Monitor profile shifts colors

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zcsmith
Oct 19, 2005
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I’m currently using a Dell P1130 21" CRT coupled up with an ATI Radeon 9600XT video card. I’ve profiled the monitor using Spyder, set it as the default profile and all goes well until I either access the "color" tab in the video setup or the screensaver kicks in. The profile shifts to some God-awful colors and won’t change back unless I either reboot or access a 3D game (i.e. Quake) and the profile colors return after exiting the game. This has been going on for quite some time and it’s occurred with ALL updated drivers from ATI. Has anyone else experienced a similar quirk and if so, how did you fix it? I recently went back to the CRT for Photoshop work after weighing the pros and cons between it and the Dell flat panel I was using. However, the same quirk was occurring with it as well. Any insight is duly appreciated.

Zach
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povimage
Oct 19, 2005
Have you tried simply reloading the profile after the shift occurs?

Keith
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zcsmith
Oct 19, 2005
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Have you tried simply reloading the profile after the shift occurs?
Keith

Yep…doesn’t work.

Zach
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Chris_Cox
Oct 19, 2005
That sounds like you have an older driver for the ATI card – that failed to restore the previously set video LUT correctly.

You need to contact ATI about this.
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zcsmith
Oct 19, 2005
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That sounds like you have an older driver for the ATI card – that failed to restore the previously set video LUT correctly.

You need to contact ATI about this.

It’s the latest version of the driver (version 5.10, out only a couple of weeks) and I’ve kept up with obtaining every new driver as soon as they hit the download page. It’s been the same story with all of them…

Zach
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Chris_Cox
Oct 20, 2005
Then ATI may have reintroduced an old bug.

Again, the problem is with the driver – there is nothing Adobe or anyone other than ATI can do about it.
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zcsmith
Oct 20, 2005
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Then ATI may have reintroduced an old bug.

Again, the problem is with the driver – there is nothing Adobe or anyone other than ATI can do about it.

I know it’s an issue with ATI, not Adobe…I just wanted to see if anyone else had a similar problem and what they did to fix it. I’ve been all through the ATI site, knowledge base, etc. but to no avail. Guess I’ll just contact them directly about it. Thanks anyway.

Zach
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Chris_Cox
Oct 20, 2005
Yes, you’ll have to contact them.

Once it gets to the driver engineers – they should know the source of the problem and be able to fix it quickly.

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