I've been doing some re-measuring of our displays using my 13 month old Eye-One Display this past week and everything was going fine until tonight (I used it this morning briefly and it seemed the same as it had last night). I finished my re-measuring task and then started doing some comparisons between my Eye-One and a friend's older Eye-One. That went fine - with his measuring a little bit more blue (3-4 percent on a grayscale run) but mine continued to be consistent when compared to measures made earlier in the week. Then tonight, I decided to re-measure an older CRT display and I was suddenly getting blue measures in a grayscale reading that were 8-9 percent lower than readings I had gotten 3 nights earlier. Green and red seemed unaffected. I tried our main Samsung LCD and sure enough, the same thing was happening when compared to measurements I took a week ago. Did my Eye-One Display suddenly give up the ghost? I've been using HCFR 2.1 under XP for all of these measures. I can't think how the other older Eye-One had anything to do with this (i.e. some driver issue - but since it's Windows, I did do the mandatory reboot to see if the problem would go away :) no luck). If indeed it sounds like my Eye-One Display's best days are behind it, then I'll look into investing in a replacement or an upgrade to the Chroma 5/Calman pair.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the unit passes the Eye-One Diagnostics "emission" test 100%.

thanks for any helpful hints,


--tom

compared to measurements I took a week ago. Did my Eye-One Display suddenly give up the ghost?

Apparently, it did not. After running the X-Rite diagnostics program and having it pass all the tests successfully, I tried it again and measurements once again were "consistent" with previous measurements a few days earlier on the same display. The negative -9 percent blue phenomena was gone. I don't really have an explanation but somehow I must have managed to get my i1D into a strange state when switching meters around - which the diagnostics program then unset/reset.

cheers,


--tom

The diagnostics software only reads data from the probe it does not reset any parameters in it.

The diagnostics software only reads data from the probe it does not reset any parameters in it.

Thanks ghibliss. Oh well, all I know is that it mysteriously returned to working consistent with what it had been doing before my multi-probe experiments. Could be a coincidence and it is starting to fail. I'll watch for the same behavior in the future. But it's working fine now or as Bones said on ST, "thank pointy ears and pitchforks."

cheers,


--tom