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    Dual monitor problem: Changing color settings for 2nd monitor?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by vpicbm, Nov 19, 2007.

  1. vpicbm

    vpicbm Notebook Guru

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    My laptop has the option to hook up a secondary monitor and use it as an extension of the windows desktop. (dual monitor)

    I have a HP 8510p laptop running Vista and a 19' LCD monitor that I usually use with an desktop PC running XP. When I use the monitor with the aforementioned PC everything looks fine, but when I use it as a secondary monitor for my laptop the color/hue/saturation/contrast doesn't look right anymore. The screen seems to dark, the contrast to strong and the colors a bit too reddish.

    My laptop runs with a ATI HD 2600 graphics card and the ATI tool allows me to change the color settings of the secondary monitor, but no matter how hard I try to tweak the settings, I just can't get the color right.

    I was thinking that maybe I have to change to color profile, like those in Photoshop, but I have no idea how to do it.

    Did anyone encounter the same problem? How can I solve it?
     
    vpicbm, Nov 19, 2007
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