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    Asus N56VM Colour Profile Problems

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by daveozzz, Oct 14, 2012.

  1. daveozzz

    daveozzz Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi there,
    I've calibrated the screen on this above laptop using an i1 Display-2 screen calibration device.
    I've used this calibrator with great results on a few other machines, but on the Asus the resulting profile looks terrible.
    Lights blues (sky areas in pictures) turn turquoise.

    I'm wondering if anyone else has calibrated the display on this (or similar) laptop, and if so, can we swap profiles so I can try to work out whether the problem is a bad profile, or some other conflict?

    I've attached a zip file with my profile - let me know if you are able to try it and what the results were like?

    A good reference is this picture:
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    In my properly calibrated machine it's sky looks a realistic blue.. in the Asus it's a weird turquoise.
    THanks for any help!

    PS I run Windows 7 and have Nvidia GT 630 M
     

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    daveozzz, Oct 14, 2012
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  2. duhai

    duhai Notebook Consultant

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    Hi daveozzz,

    There are too many things that can be the cause for a bad monitor calibration result including user’s errors. Here are only the base steps crossing my mind:

    1. Hardware
    a) clean the screen monitor
    b) check the calibration device is it in order (read the manual & consult with the vendor)​

    2. Software
    a) upgrade calibration device drivers & application soft
    b) upgrade the video driver
    c) set the native monitor resolution
    d) set brightness, contrast, gamma to its defaults
    e) use 24/32-bit color quality
    f) check the device manager for errors (win OS) and system log​

    3. Calibration
    a) use advanced mode and follow the instructions
    b) check your custom .icc profile, compare it with sRGB
    c) make sure that the new profile is loaded​

    I saw a low quality LCD screen (e.g. Toshiba L305) where in my view is a wasting of time to be calibrated. I don’t have your model but the screen of my Asus C90S was pretty good (not perfect).

    The provided profile doesn’t works for me. Something is wrong, no .icc extension and can’t be loaded or recognized as a profile.

    How looks the picture with sRGB? Is your calibration device producing acceptable results on another monitor at the moment? If you have an external monitor just try to calibrate its screen on the current system.

    Did you follow the instruction from the video manual?

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    duhai, Oct 30, 2012
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