2 VGA displays, one blueish

Hi,
I just got a Mac Pro 2.66 GHz to replace my old G5.
Now I've got two identical VGA-LCD-Displays (Dell E171FPb) connected to the GeForce 7300GT. Unfortunately, one looks very blueish. I tried to calibrate the blueish display, but I couldn't even get the brightness high enough to see the "Oval between two Rectangles".
The problem cannot be in the displays because when I swith them, the blueish color will affect the other display.
Anyone else had a similar problem and how did you solve it ?
Or any idea ?
I had a slightly color difference on the G5, so I has to do something with either the card or the adapters I'm using (bot from Apple)...
Thanks a lot !
Peter
Mac Pro 2.66GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) GeForce 7300GT with two VGA Dell E171FPb LCDs

Hmmm.... I cannot swap the adapters because they have different layouts.
One has pins in the middle and the other one hasn't.
But it could be a correct answer... I might have taken one of the adapters from my previous G5, and this machine had the blueish-Problem too (but to a lesser degree; I previously used two Sun-Monitors on this machine and they had a similar problem... -> Might really be the adapter...)
Due to the fact, that the problem occured to my old Mac too, I can't think of a graphic card problem.
I was thinking, that it could be a driver or a misunderstanding of the DVI or the two different DVI-out concept...
But are my basics right ? I can have two displays connected to the two differend kinds of DVI ports on the same card ?
Mac Pro, 2.66GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8) GeForce 7300GT with two VGA Dell E171FPb LCDs

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