Why am I losing saturation?

I know this topic has cropped up before but I haven’t found an explanation of or solution to my particular problem. I have a Dell wide-gamut monitor (U2713H) which has two calibration settings (using i1Display Pro), Adobe RGB and SRGB. Normally I process the RAW files in PS (CS6) then continue in Photoshop using Adobe colour space. Then I save the Adobe RGB file, but I also convert to SRGB colour profile for files I want to upload to flickr or send to friends. Occasionally I’m happy with the original jpg image embedded in the camera RAW file and may just want to crop it. This is when I get the problem. Jpg images with heavily saturated colours, saved in PS with no colour adjustment, merely cropping, lose their saturation and contrast, compared to the original. Oddly, if I view both files on a standard laptop monitor I see no difference. I realize that a wide-gamut monitor, even when set to SRGB, may not display the same as a standard monitor, but why should the colours in the cropped picture look different from the original, viewing both on the same screen. It’s almost as if the original (produced by a Canon 600D) is not tagged with an accurate SRGB profile and thus it gets corrected by Photoshop during saving. The only way I can get the pictures looking the same is to convert to monitor profile or to tell PS not to colour manage when I crop the picture, but then the saved picture has no embedded profile, which is not satisfactory. I’m running Windows 7 in 64 bit mode.
Until I understand what is going on I cannot be sure that any Adobe RGB images converted to SRGB profile will look right on someone else’s standard monitor.

In reply to 'twenty-one's' first point the file has an embedded srgb profile. If it didn't, when loaded into Photoshop, the latter would alert me that the file has a missing profile. Re point 3, I don't know whether my picture viewer is a colour-managed application. I use Irfan picture viewer.
In reply to Rob Day, I've followed all the recommended procedures in calibrating the monitor using i1 Display Pro. I don't make any adjustments in the system control panel. The DellU2713H has several factory-set calibrations, including SRGB and AdobeRGB. In addition there are two custom settings, CAL1 and CAL2, which can be used to make individual profiles using the i1 Display Pro callibration device. When individually callibrated to Adobe gamma there is no noticeable difference compared to Dell's factory setting, but when callibrating the second CAL to SRGB there is a noticeable difference when compared to Dell's factory callibration. This is not altogether surprising given comments I read in one very analytical review.
As I said earlier, the problem seems to have been related to the faulty motherboard. I notice that if I load the two pictures (the original and a saved Photoshop copy with no adjustments) into Photoshop there are very minute differences in the histograms. Now these don't affect the appearance of the pictures, either in PS or when viewed in a picture viewer, but perhaps previously the faulty motherboard was magnifying the minute differences for some reason. I'm not a computer expert so I've no idea whether this is a plausible explanation or not.
Thanks again to all for comments and suggestions.

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