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I bought a Spyder 3 Pro today, to calibrate my W3000H-BN.

I ran the calibration, but the screen now has a red tone to everything. Is this normal? Also, how do I find out if my colors are accurate or not?

I tried using basiccolor, but whenever I calibrate from that program, I get an error; "error: invalid calibration curves video LUTs" I also can't select Hardware Calibration under the settings.
 
If you are used to a more bluish colours, than the calibrated screen could make a reddish effect. Also the problem may be that W3000H-BN is a wide gamut monitor, isn't it? And normal calibrators are not good at calibrating WG monitors. Try to calibrate it at 7000K, not 6500K.

Also your Spyder 3 may be a broken piece, sometimes calibrators do not work as desired. Some people also claim that Eye-One iDisplay 2 should produce more precise calibration results than Spyder 3, but that would have to be confirmed with a spectrophotometer, which is pretty expensive thing.
 
Here are some pre and post calibration picture...

Help me find the problem guys!

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Were you careful to remove all ambient light, and was the sensor placed flat against the screen? These are two common reasons for a bad calibration/adjustment.
 
You can only hardware calibrate the NEC SpectraView LCD2690WUXISV. Just do the software calibration "video card LUTS".

Make sure you have the BasiCColor Gamma loader in your Startup and the system profile is the sRGB one.

Also make sure you tilt your monitor back as much as you can to ensure good contact between the calibrator and screen.

lobski said:
I bought a Spyder 3 Pro today, to calibrate my W3000H-BN.

I ran the calibration, but the screen now has a red tone to everything. Is this normal? Also, how do I find out if my colors are accurate or not?

I tried using basiccolor, but whenever I calibrate from that program, I get an error; "error: invalid calibration curves video LUTs" I also can't select Hardware Calibration under the settings.
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10e said:
You can only hardware calibrate the NEC SpectraView LCD2690WUXISV. Just do the software calibration "video card LUTS".

Make sure you have the BasiCColor Gamma loader in your Startup and the system profile is the sRGB one.

Also make sure you tilt your monitor back as much as you can to ensure good contact between the calibrator and screen.
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Alright, I did a run with Basiccolor, the screen looks the same as if I calibrated with Spyder3Pro program. Still very red-ish tone. Here are the results

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^Why does it calibrate with the red real high?

Can someone tell me what this means? Does it say why my screen looks real red?
 
maybe the spyder is defective, is it possible to check the color temperature of standard sunlight, or am other light source of known temperature. (ambient light check)
If it doesn't tell the right temp (6500 for sun) we know the sensor's the problem.
 
may be some thing wrong with the sensor inside ur calibrater i think is it possible to exchange it?
 
Well the problem I see is that your white point target is D50. That is a very red illuminate over all. The normal illuminate target for a computer display is D65, or 6500k if your prefer. When you set up the calibration set it to D65, 2.2 gamma. See how that works for you.
 
Hey Lobski,

Sycraft is right.

Looking at the graph, your Delta on red is low, which means that BC feels it's accurate compared to your target calibration settings. The reason your screen is so red is because you are calibrating to D50. The settings should be as follows: D65/6500, 2.2 gamma, sRGB.

Your delta average is 0.34 which is very good. The best I've ever gotten was with the NEC at average 0.26. The lower the better. It also SEEMS that it is detecting the wide gamut correctly based on the "chroma and gamut" photo/chart.

There is a pre-set through all the settings on BC 4.1.8 that is set to these. It's one of the IEC settings I think but I can't remember off the top of my head.

For example here is what I calibrated earlier with BC 4.1.8 with my Eye One Display 2 from my SpectraView II kit on my earlier V2400W review:

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ATI 4870x2 is a pretty new card. Do you have the most recent version of Basicolor? But maybe it has nothing to do with it :-/
 
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