Noise/Snow in light shades of colors, especially gray or blue

Hello All,
I hate a 2011 15" Macbook Pro that I have hooked up to my 30" HP LP3065 monitor using Apple minidisplay port to dual link DVI connector. Light shades of colors, especially gray and blue, have noise/snow/shimmer. The problem is described perfectly in this thread (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2175477?start=0&tstart=0). Also, I had this same problem when I had the monitor hooked up to my PC and was able to resolve it in the process described in the last post of this thead (http://forums.amd.com/game/textthread.cfm?catid=260&threadid=150261). Does anyone know how I can fix this on my Macbook Pro?
Thanks.
Regards,
Chris

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