[Winter]

ok, this is getting very annoying.

it seems that after about 5 minutes of painting in Painter(or any other program), the Tablet just dies. the light turns off and it won't turn on until i restart the computer. i tried everything, updating drivers, and i've asked a few people and they had no clue what is wrong. seems it only happens when i'm painting .

i'm guessing it might be a USB problem rather than the intous Tablet. but sadly i'm not too good with computers to figure it out. anyone else ever had this problem? please help, Thx

[Drunken Monkey]

Try it on a different port of the same computer then on another computer if that doesnt fix it. If it still happens get a replacement from Wacom. I think all their tablets are lifetime warranted arent they?

If it works on another computer then there might be something with your motherboard. Update the bios maybe...

I had a serial tablet, it did the same thing. Its cord was broken inside.

Just my 2 cents.

[lalPOOO]

The dr. gave you some pretty good advice. My guess is that its some kind of lose wire, if your of the adventurish do-it-yourself genre, you could open it up and try and fix it. However, that'd void the warrenty.

You could try RMA'ing it if the things he's suggested don't work.

[[Shizo]]

HMM! I have a serial, and i wished i got an USB but i see these things happen to both.. Mine doesn't die, and the light is still on. But sometimes after i use the computer for a while, the tablet doesn't respond. I try to turn the driver connection off and on but that doesn't work. Either reinstalling the driver or restarting works though.

[eyalyab]

had this problem too once. the graphire1 tablet wouldnt work (light was still on) sometimes plugging the usb in the second outlet helped. sometimes i had to reinstall the driver. doesnt happen lately (shit. i jinxed myself) un-jinx! un-jinx! (dont mind me)

a different problem i have lately is that the pen nib sorta gets stuck and even when i lift the pen up (not pressuring it on the tablet) it still reacts as if it was pressed. some f*cked up graphire this is. at least it was cheap.
btw, who the hell uses that mouse?! its useless. anyone wanna buy a graphire1 mouse? i thought so.. ::throws mouse out the window::

[Winter]

Thank you all for trying to help!...

i tested the tablet on my friend's computer and it was working perfectly...aah it's the motherboard damn it. and the most depressing part is that while i was looking for a website to update my bios, i notice that there's no support for the board. caught another website listing it as one of the worse motherboards.

i hate this . i've been wasting more time trying to stabilize my computer than doing an actual artwork.