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At the begaining of this year I posted about a "sanity check LUT failed" error message when i tried to run spyder 3. After contacting Datacolor reloading and upgrading, no fix. With the help of a POTN member tried unloading and reloading the Radeon Hd 5700 display adapter, no change. Seams the problem may be the operating system. I decided to hold off reloading it untill last week (work related reason). I took my harddrive a Dell dimension i7 into work and the I.T. department tried to run a couple of internal fixes. than tried to run the spyder using there monitor, same error message. Imaged the system, reloaded the operating system and than loaded the spyder 3 and upgraded to 4. Ran the spyder it worked. Took the harddrive home loaded PS5, Lightroom3, windows works and logitech. ran the spyder to calabrate my Dell U2410, and I get the error message. So thinking it was the logitech I tried to uninstall it and than run the spyder, error message. I went back to I.T. reload OS, PS, lightroom and works then the spyder 3 and upgraaded to 4. Still get the error message. Have a Dell SE198WFP monitor tried the spyder on it same error message. The spyder works on my Dell laptop and it has the same software. Its probably all a waist of time since i'm partialy color blind, but if I have the tools to do it right then I would like to at least try. Not much on giving up. Is thier another color calibration system that will work with my system? any way to rent it first to see if it works before buying?
Sorry about the long rant.

m52 wrote in post #15132105
any way to rent it first to see if it works before buying?

Sounds like a glitch in the matrix rather then the device and you need to isolate the problem. In the future create a system backup after each step until you find the cause. Then roll back the system settings rather then using the uninstaller (especially for drivers) when you do. It will save you time and lots of headaches doing it this way rather then depending on someone else to keep fixing you up.

Very hard to read post, so I might have missed something, but you could try different software maybe?

René Damkot wrote in post #15133160
Very hard to read post, so I might have missed something, but you could try different software maybe?

now, Meneer Damkot, play nice. You may have trouble reading the post but please do not blame it on m52.

Just kidding you!

Gil

Gil Bean wrote in post #15135103
now, Meneer Damkot, play nice. You may have trouble reading the post but please do not blame it on m52.

Just kidding you!

Gil

René is one of the best troubleshooters on this forum. If you come here for help & can't be bothered to make your question easy to understand...

Thanks isomorphic, next time i'll try your sugestion. what do you mean by glitch in the matrix?

Thanks Rene, sorry about the confusing post. what other color calabration softwware would you recomend?

Thanks PhotosGuy, I'll have to work on my wording skills along with my computer skills

m52 wrote in post #15136757
Thanks isomorphic, next time i'll try your sugestion. what do you mean by glitch in the matrix?

Driver conflict due to the fact you can't just simply uninstall drivers. There is a program called driver cleaner that could possibly fix you up.

BasICColor Display4 or ColorEyes Display Pro both have a trial.

I use the (free) DispCal/ArgyllCMS to calibrate my second monitor (cheap TN screen) because it get's it closer to my main Eizo then MonacoOptix does. But it takes more then an hour to do so…

I'd try isoMorphic's solution first though.

PhotosGuy wrote in post #15136455
René is one of the best troubleshooters on this forum. If you come here for help & can't be bothered to make your question easy to understand...

PhotosGuy,
If you noticed, I said "Just Kidding You". I have great respect for René. I have "snapped" at 2 people (actually more than 2) and René Very Politely reminded me not to be such a grouch. In one post I wrote, "now someone will tell me to "Play Nice". The next post was from René. It simply said "yeah, play nice". I believe it had a smile. I was simply saying Hello to René, which is why I used and "Just kidding". There was absolutely no seriousness to my comment to René. Please, look a little closer at my post. The humor should be obvious.

Gil

Thanks isoMorphic, I tried driver sweeper before reinstalling windows, should I run driver sweeper again?

Thanks Rene, I'll try driver sweeper than try one of your sugestions.

Gil Bean wrote in post #15140037
PhotosGuy,
If you noticed, I said "Just Kidding You". I have great respect for René. I have "snapped" at 2 people (actually more than 2) and René Very Politely reminded me not to be such a grouch. In one post I wrote, "now someone will tell me to "Play Nice". The next post was from René. It simply said "yeah, play nice". I believe it had a smile. I was simply saying Hello to René, which is why I used and "Just kidding". There was absolutely no seriousness to my comment to René. Please, look a little closer at my post. The humor should be obvious.

Gil

Actually, I was referencing the "You may have trouble reading the post but please do not blame it on m52." part, and addressing m52, not the other part of your comment. I've seen a lot of questions in huge blocks of text like M52's, & often wonder why we should be expected to donate time to solve a problem when they can't be bothered to hit the Enter key once in as while?

Play nice guys…

What's an M52? The BMW or the tank?

René Damkot wrote in post #15141876
What's an M52? The BMW or the tank?

Take your pick:
1. A highway in Michigan & South Lancashire.
2. The OP's username. ; )
3. Messier 52 (also known as M 52 or NGC 7654) is an open cluster in the Cassiopeia constellation.
4. A Canon VIXIA HF M52 Full HD Camcorder
5. Low Distortion High Level Measurement Microphone.
6. Yugoslavian M52 Series Fragmentation Grenades
7.iVIS HF M52/HF M51 概要 - キヤノン

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Or, who moderates the moderators?

:p:p:p

PhotosGuy wrote in post #15141415
Actually, I was referencing the "You may have trouble reading the post but please do not blame it on m52." part, and addressing m52, not the other part of your comment. I've seen a lot of questions in huge blocks of text like M52's, & often wonder why we should be expected to donate time to solve a problem when they can't be bothered to hit the Enter key once in as while?

Frank,

OOPS, I did it again (not reading closely). BTW, I was not "giving you a hard time". I simply wanted you to know I was not insulting René but merely "cutting up".

Regretfully, I am guilty of not hitting the "enter" key. I have asked (many times) a question that I could have easily found an answer to had I taken a bit more time to look, read, searched Google instead of here, and etcetera. When someone points out the obvious, I want to beat my head against the wall and crawl under a rock. I feel sooo stoopid.

Gil