Problems calibrating large CRT monitors

Hi All
I have a SP 1.8GHz G5 Power Mac, 1.25GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Graphics card.
I have recently been trying to find a larger Monitor and not being the richest individual on the planet I have been looking at 21" CRT's. So far I have tried two second hand items, a Dell P1130 and a Sun Microsystems unit. Up until now I have had no colour problems with any monitor I have used. My first an Apple 1705 17", and more recently a Proview 19". Both of these monitors cali brated OK and gave good colour reproduction. However both of the larger monitors I have tried have given problems. The Dell, Model P1130 gave a green/blue colour cast on the picture, the Sun of which I don't know the model No. gave a pink colour cast. No amount of callibration would remove the colour casts from either monitor.
I am concerned that there may be a problem with my graphics card as I don't understand why I should be having these problems considering the colour I get from my current monitor is excellent. The problem being the monitor is faulty and needs replacing.
Is there anyone out there who can throw any light on why I might be having these problems?!
Thanks in advance...

I had a 'yellow' 22" iiyama for years, well 2 and a half; it was one of a pair and eventually I relised it wasn't differences in the graphics cards at all but the monitor which was just darker and yellower than the other. I got round it for that time by using the monitor's own controls to evenout the differences: setting the hardware colour temp very high etc.
Fortunately, iiyama being iiyama, when i rang them they replaced both monitors with new ones, after 2 and a half years! This was all the more remarkable because it contrasts so strongly with apple who only replaced my g5 because it broke within the first 14 days of use: a day later and it would have been sent off for repair; which from what i gather that could have taken weeks.
Try your monitor's hardwar controls.

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