X300 color profile problem

Hi. Just got an X300. Like all my laptops and desktops, I do a color calibration using Datavision SpyderPro2 to create a color profile that is near-professional. The calibration runs fine on the X300, and the profile loads at startup which triggers the correct color profile and color balance and it looks great. But just a few minutes later, magically, the X300 reverts back to the default color profile, essentially ignoring/ejecting the color profile I created with Spyder Pro.
What is the cause of this? Why would the X300 accept, then later on, reject and revert back to the default color profile (which, btw, is waaaaay too blue).
Thanks
Message Edited by JayNYC on 04-26-2008 07:45 PM

i had a hunch you were using vista.
LUT = look-up table.   it's the table used by your video card driver to determine how each color has to render.   by changing values in this table, each color can be made brighter, darker, or shifted in hue.
the way i worked around the vista issue is to set a schedule in task scheduler to run the LUT loader roughly 15~20 seconds after login.   this covers both login after boot and after recovery from sleep.   it's a PITA but is the only workaround i can think to do.
i briefly glanced over the article you've linked above and it sounds like exactly what i went through back in august when i received my T61p and first used vista.   i'm still using vista today and have since decided to live with the added headache with vista's color management interface (or lack thereof).
if all you need to do is remove color cast then seriously consider using the gamma controls in the "color correction" section of the intel GMA control panel.   if your display appears too blue then just knock the brightness down on the blue channel until it looks good to you.   since you aren't doing design work with the X300, this will be a perfectly viable solution.
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I have an Asus PA24 wide gamut monitor.
I see the same oversaturation on other consumer level (narrow gamut) computers and monitors.
I've seen similar threads and I apologize if this is repetitive. The other threads got so long and off topic that I couldn't find my specific solution in them. If you know of a thread that may help, please refer me to it. Or if you know the solution, that would be most helpful. Thank you.
Below is an example of Bridge and file explorer showing the same file differently. The Bridge view is what Photoshop is showing me too.

Steve Lenz wrote:
So my assumption is the monitors profile is not the same as the files tagged profile
My goodness, no. If they are, you get what's known as a null transform - IOW the whole color management chain is disabled.
Your document profile is what it is, sRGB, Adobe RGB etc. When that file is sent to the display, those RGB values are remapped into your monitor profile. Put in other terms, the doc profile is converted, on the fly, to the monitor profile. You need both, one is converted into the other.
When you run the Spyder software, it creates a profile and sets it as default monitor profile on OS level, where Photoshop finds it by itself. It also runs a general calibration, but that's not relevant here. Photoshop is only concerned with the profile, which is a description of the monitor's behavior in its current (calibrated) state. Just run the software and let it complete, don't do anything.
Just to get on to some firm ground here: Try to set Adobe RGB as default monitor profile in Control Panel > Color Management > Devices (reboot). Since this is a wide gamut monitor (it is - isn't it?), Adobe RGB is in the ballpark, and it's a known good profile. So that's roughly how it should look.

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