Recalibrate for New Computer?

[Jim Mohundro]

I’ve recently had my monitor and computer calibrated (Spyder 3): MS XP Home Edition, P4 processor, NVIDIA graphics card), Maxtor hard drive (internal), in anticipation of the completion of construction of a new computer—which I’ll pick up today, and installation of Lightroom 2 which I have in hand but I’ve not installed in my current computer pending completion of its replacement. The new computer’s hardware and OS: MS XP Professional, Intel #84'' Core Duo processor, ATI graphics card and Seagate SATA II hard drive. Do I need to recalibrate my PC and monitor for the new hardware and OS?

 

[Denis Pagé]

...Do I need to recalibrate my PC and monitor for the new hardware and OS?

Definitely!

Not only your spider program may asked you to adjust the buttons on your display but it did not record the adjustments into the monitor but rather in a file in your system, corresponding to physical adjustments on your monitor.

First, with a new video card, your monitor may respond differently; Second, you won't have the profile (file) from the old system. And even if you copy that file, it is not made to fit the new conditions.

And welcome Jim!

 

[Jim Mohundro]

PS re recalibration question

All my data files will be transferred from the old computer to the new. Since that includes email and utilities, e.g., Favorites, Windows appearance, etc, I would think that the default and the Spyder profiles would be transferred as well. Maybe not?...

 

[Denis Pagé]

All my data files will be transferred from the old computer to the new. Since that includes email and utilities, e.g., Favorites, Windows appearance, etc, I would think that the default and the Spyder profiles would be transferred as well. Maybe not?...

They WILL BE transferred. BUT! You told us that you are going from a nVidia video card to ATI. Hence, CALIBRATE AGAIN!

Anyway, as conditions are always changing, you should recalibrate once a month or so.