T500 LCD Planel Adjustment Challenges

Does anyone have any LCD Panel adjustment tips for a T500 with 1680x1050 screen and Intel 4500HD GPU? I am trying to make adjustments through the Intel Graphic Media Accelerator Driver Control Panel. I am running Vista Home Basic.

A number of different calibration programs such as Calibreze start by having you set the contrast to maximum. When I do this it washes out the screen so I back off on the contrast and try to proceed through the test but the result is that the color saturation is lacking.

I am further frustrated by the video settings button on the same control panel. When I change the settings here it appears to have an effect only on the small test photos provided in the adjustment window. It has no effect on the display itself.

I found a bunch of color management options in Vista but I have no clue as to where to begin with these.

Lastly, I tried to find a user guide for but came up with nothing.

I am left wondering why I didn't just buy a machine with a dedicated graphics card.

 

I think I found part of the answer to my issue below. I have a Samsung LTN154P3-L02 panel in my laptop

If I go into >Display Settings >Advanced Settings>Color Management it says:

Device is Display: ThinkPad Display 1680x1050 - Mobile Intel...
and under Profiles associated with this device it has ThinkPad Display 1680x1050.icm file. My question is shouldn't the icm file be specific to the LCD panel itself, i.e. shouldn't there be a .icm profile unique to the Samsung LTN154P3-02 panel?

If so is there a place I can find one outside of Lenovo? An interesting side note is that PC Wizard is showing that this panel has a manufacture date of 2007. This can't be accurate can it?

 

Yes it can be accurate. I think I saw somewhere someone with a 2006 panel in a new machine.