Well I have a solution - sort of..
For whatever reason the USA SpectraView II software just wont give me communications with my Australian purchased 2690 Wuxi on the October 2008 Mac Pro with Nvidia 8800 GT video card - I constantly get 'No Communications'. Earlier versions of SpectraView II did work - but now it doesn't - and thats running the latest version of OSX.
After numerous emails with NEC Australia (who were not very knowledgeable or helpful), NEC USA (who were extremley knowledgeable and helpful - thank you very much Will) and the new Spectraview monitor series people here in Australia (likewise very knowledgeable and helpful) I have come to the following conclusions - That Australian purchased 2690 Wuxi monitors are incompatible with the NVidia 8800 GT and the US version of SpectraView 2. For whatever reason it just doesn't work.
Plugging in my 2008 macBOOK pro to the 2690 Wuxi with the US Spectraview II software does work and I get full communications - go figure. So as a work around I can generate the profile from the macbook pro and then copy it over to the Mac Pro. But its a bit cumbersome - although it does allow for proper access to the 12 bit LUT's.
As another solution I have tried the latest SpectraView Profiler software which is supplied with SpectraView monitors in Europe and Australia - this works, but....the top Hardware LUT calibration option is greyed out - allowing for only software calibration, avoiding the 12 bit LUT's in the monitor -Grrrr.... This seems to be the same problem others have reported.
End result - relegating the monitor to a secondary monitor and purchasing a new 2690 Wuxi2 SpectraView Reference that will work properly with the SpectraView Profiler software. It comes as a package now in Australia - which is cool - because it wasnt available when I purchased my monitor. I hadn't planned on running two monitors - and the extra outlay wasn't something I had planned on - but really its the best solution for ongoing stability for me if I want to properly hardware calibrate the monitor - which I do.
Phew - what a saga.. Anyway I have written all this down as hopefully it might help someone else in a similar situation.
There is more information on the differences between the USA monitors and Spectraview II software and the Australian / European monitors and Spectraview Profiler software here:
SpectraView DifferencesSee this thread for the final update
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