I heve finished installing XP. BUT I can't tell if my moniter is calibrated correctly. Can someone please check this picture and comment on the color. The water should be blue and whitish. The bird whould be brown with a yellow and orange beak. Any coments is welcome. I think the moniter is correct BUT i'm not sure. And I'm a little leary to adjust the color if it is out of whack so to speak. Bsteph

Personally, me thinks you shouldn't calibrate your monitor based on other peoples settings. I just installed XP today (UUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!), and I have yet to be able to get proper drivers for my monitor (stupid 800x600...). Best way to do it, is to print out the pic on whatever printer you will use for final cut prinouts, and adjust your monitor so the colours on the print out match the colours on screen. A good way to do it is with Pantone colour values. You can get a Pantone colour booklet if you look around, and its the best way to compare printouts with on screen colours (the colours are set to values, so you can pretty much pick out a pixel, and set what value it should be, which should adjust all other colours). Essentialy, just print out a bunch of block colours to work with the Pantone set, and work in CMYK as much as you can (some filters and such are incompatible with CMYK, but on final TIF saves, its nice to convert, and then adjust the colours after the save). Also, for room lighting, try and work with "Natural Lighting" lights (which can cost blinb bling), or at least subdued lighting. Before doing any calibrations or graphics work, let the monitor be on for about a half hour so it warms up complete (half hour's a while, but best to be sure). Also, when saving to JPEG, I find that the colours change a bit for me, more contrasty lookin'. Work with TIF and PSD when adjusting colours and comparing. XP is annoying isnt it? Took me and a friend several hours just to get a third HD working, never mind the rest of the hardware. I've lost my second monitor entirely, the master monitor doesn't have proper drivers (its Plug and Play at the moment, ick), and I'm a lil'scared to plug in my Wacom, Zip drive, and printer tonight.. On the upside, I got to format all my HDs (RAWK!), which is a blessing. I can no longer classify this puter as a Compaq, aside for some parts, and the casing (which is lookin' mighty funny at the moment). I'm running on a 380mhz, with 128 ram, which is definitely stretching it for XP, but heck, I've read up on people who have WIN ME installed on 486ers for god;'s sake (you can find a blurb about that somewhere on cnet.com), so once I tweak it all up, it should juice. Hope this helps man, though i didn't give you any answer whatsoever. ry

Actually you answered me a lot. Dual moniters with XP is a no no!!! I kow know that someone else will spend the better part of a week setting up XP. And that the moniter setup gizmo made by adobe is caput for you too. Um I'll have to check this mag I have about XP but I know you are gonna have to download the new ACTIVE tecnology program for you zip drive. It may work with XP withought the upgrade but you will have to constantly have to keep re installing the hardware otherwise. Once the active disk program is in there the zip will work fine. BTW you will need JAVA capability to download the program from Iomega. For some stupid reason they won't allow anyone to downlod freebies unless they fill out some java based form. At least the plut and play worked for the moniter. BTW X2. 30 days from when you installed XP you have to register it. OR else it goes caput. And according to my brother they are carting people away who haven't registered MS programs!!! AOL if you use it is all messed up. I lost my modem for about a week. Apparently XP has never heard of a US robotics modem!!! Plus US robotics don't support my modem anymore. I also need a new version of AOL ( Version 7! Not 6 or 5 or 4 but 7 or else things won't work. ) BTW version 3 worked and could detect my modem I have no idea why the later versions wouldn't. Additionally AOL kept track of the number of time I used the older version of aol before supposedly cutting me off. I got three tries to download the new version of aol or have a cd shipped out to me. However during that time the version 5 worked fine!!!!!!!!! As I recal you have a HP scanner like me. That was all messed up. I downloaded the patches from HP but learned that they don't install. I managed to get it to work but... I have no idea how long. Get yourself an installer for winaspi32 if you use a CD burner or you wont be able to make anything other than cd images. I got mine from the Nero website. ( Just search for nero I can't remember the company name. ) The printers work fine though. XP is the ultimat big brother helper. Everytime I get a conflict windows want's to log onto the net to upgrade or generate a report. I assume BB is why MS wrote XP anyway. What I've heard is that there is a corporate version of XP which does NOT have to be registered. Good things about XP. Installed easy. Built in thumbnail browser for pictures!!! That is sooooo cool. Now I don't have to look for browser programs. Pretty quick once things get set up. Better error handling. But I'm used to win 95. Not as good as NT for task managing. Either that or my system is just too much for it. Basically when I am going and installing ect. It locks up maybe four time a day. I admit that is too much but I think that is in the past. The driver rollback can be a good feature. However it did not seem to work. Also you can emulate previous versions of windows to make programs run ( Supposedly! ) Have yet to try out making CD's. Actually I think I did it once. If so that works. BUT there is no simulate and burn. It just burns. If you wind up with a coster...too bad. Well good luck Slynk. Have fun. But I advise you to get all of the XP update stuff while you can. OH and thanks for the info. Bsteph

I'm on Mac & colour looks fine on my screen if that's any help...

Thanks BEV!! Bsteph

..colors look ok for me too. (HP P1110) .n

Thanks all! Bsteph

Colours look ok to me too!

Dual monitors is a yes yes actually, I just need a video card that isn't as archaic as the one I used for the 2nd monitor on win98. Tried two (very VERY old) vid cards, didn't work, but I set up my voodoo very nicely though. as for the zip drive, and downloading drivers, won't be a problem. I use Opera, so it doesn't take 30 years to download components for Internet Explorer. As for registering WinXP, I will be registering it. How I register it exactly I'll leave up to the playpen of your imaginations to figure out.... ;0) Incidently, I'm using Win XP Professionalo, and never had a registration problem since installing it, and I've installed a third HD, attempted to install two vid cards (drivers won't function under XP), a Wacom, AND my modem (which was a slight bitch to install, but it juices once again). Through all that, I haven't had a single lock up yet. As for Microsoft carting people away, because supposedly Win XP has "special coding" to track people and whatnot, I really am not afraid. I've lost my Office 2K cds, so I gotta ask mah friend for them, and I will install them, and it will all be good. Father took the scanner with him when he took off. Oh well. for the dual monitor setup, all I wanna do is get an old Voodo 1 or 2 card, nothing fancy. All I use the 2nd monitor for is for putting all my menus with programs in (so I can use the main monitor to work ful lscreen), and for useless stuff like Winamp and Messenger proggies. I got one PCI slot left, and I'm gonna use it. Also, might try and prove you the BIG fool if I land some cash, and get a PCI card with two monitor outputs for a nice Tri-monitor setup..., bwahahhaha.... As far as the emulation goes, from what I understand, Windows doesn't do any emulation whatsoever, but rather fools the program into thinking its running in another OS so it runs. I might very well be wrong, but that's a blessing for Studi Max users, cause from what I've heard, it just can't run under Win2K (assuming that goes over for XP as well, and also assuming what IVe heard is correct). As for XP having a way to go, so does every other version of winblows (though XP more so cause it is kinda newish). Stop dampering on my fun Alpha!

A hahahaha yet more victims of XP (x-tra poopy). Guess what, the fun has only just begun. I've also heard of a HUGE number of programs will not run under XP, untill they are ported to the NT architecture. I just love reading about all the problems people have with windows and PCs. especially since XP. Makes me feel WAAAAY better about spending all that money on a MAC way back then. Big Brother Gates is watching YOU! (tell him I said to ****) (I'm just messin' btw)

Oh yeah your color looks fine here on a MAC with Dual monitors running OS9.1 at a blazing 266mHz ( take that all you 1.5gHz XP fools hahahahahhahaha) oH, yeah it also looks fine on my MAC running windows95 (lesser of the great evils). pc, mac, pc, mac, pc, mac.......Commodore-64 rules!

Plugged in my zip drive, XP configured it in 30 seconds, proceeded to format 12 zip disks, no problems. Incidently, Active Disk "technology" is for installing software on zip disks (which if anyone does that they should be shot), so I have no ned for that. Also, about a year and a half ago, I managed to install Bryce 3 for Mac on a zip disk so we could run it without the teacher knowing, and it worked fine, so i don't see what the point of "Active Disk" shyte is for anyways. Course Macs are just SLIGHTLY different than pcs. oh yeah, nplus, ever try playing an mp3 while surfing the net? HAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!! MAC SUX!!!!! HA HA and HA!

This is basicly my clutter everytime I start this ancient thing up, Slynk. Doing it right now using audion 2.6 with a 1.5 gig playlist surf all day and no skiping...(and like i said that is on a 266mhz) so i don't know what your talking about. hmm lets see what is open and running...... audion, IE, Finder, Virtual PC with win95, Photoshop, dragthing...... no crashes, stable as a *************************** and that is just with 160megs of RAM (256 with virtual mem). And If you knew how old this computer really is......it's not a blue and white g3 lets just say that. Oh, did I mention the Dual monitor set up BOOOYA!

This debate is over ; )

a commodore 64 emulator? NOT THE REAL THING BUDDY! lol. I didnt know Win95 could run on a mac??? That using hardware emulation or something? I remember some old Mac advertisements showing how great their puters were by allegedly running both Mac Os and Windows at the same time... and also, anyone remember the Mac/PC hybrid computer? I remember it being advertised a total of ONCE in a future shop pamphlet or something a few years ago...

Chuckle. What have I created. Nplus are you running a Power PC? Well I didn't uninstall XP when I installed it I did a full install while reserving win 95. ( Which came in handy because it didn't install correctly the first time. I was short drivers and space as I recall. ) Yes you can run programs froma zip but. I agree it's a nuscance. I like the active disk because it senses when I put in the zip disk. Basically my system in the past was a win 95 system on a K7 500 Mhz. 30g harddrive and 10G hard drive which I basically filled up! Then the external modem was installed on a serial port which also hosted a digital camera hookup through a switch box. So I want the active sensing because I use the switchbox which causes me to loose the zip drive connection. Slynk-Good to know that you got the zip to work. Did you have any winaspi32.dll problems? Now the fun comes!!! The parallel port had a four way switch box. So I can switch from laser printer-Hp Scanner, cannon printer, zip drive, and video digitizer. I just don't think windows was designed to handle that. I disliked USB because back in the olden days I didn't have a USB port. So there now you see why my system may have hiccups from time to time. But for what it's worth. My ATARI 520 kicked all of you guys stuff. I just ran across the 13 year old recipt last week. It cost a whopping!!! ...$350.00! I did dtp, video scanning with sound, direct midi hookups, paper scanning,ect. The clock speed was a blazing 12MHz I think. Plus it could multi task! All the power none of the cost!!! Plus I could hack program better!@ Bwahahah. Runns away screaming. Bwahahahaha. Bsteph

fun-e win95 runs by using Virtual PC software emulation, so you know thats got to be fast ; ) I do remember those Hybrids vaguely...reminds me of a box my dad rigged once that was an Amiga1000 and a PC... thing weighed like 4 tons.

wanna be put to shame? I've done kcik ass video editing on an Amiga! Damn, open source freeware is becoming truly incredible. Incidently, Atari 2600 are still being used frequently for midi work. Apparently, the clocks inside those things were hella accurate, so it picked out the notes exactly on cue. What i want, is a nice Sound Blaster Audigy card. Thing comes with fire wire, ANd its a killer sound card! sweet... voodoo2, or Audigy.... or firewire period... shyte, I got some decision making. Just realized I only got the one PCI ort left. Stupid PCI modem...

That one of the reasons mine is external. That's funny my work computer is now slower than mine at home!!! Oh well at least it's not one of the p90's Bsteph