Omg my pen!

Haddas · Wed 08/12/2004 18:13:35

NO! I can't believe it! My tablet pen is malfunctioning!

The tablet in question is an A5 Wacom Volito. It's been functioning great until today. I was going to draw with it and that's when I noticed, it was jumping around. Not much, 5-30 pixels, but it's enough to drive you mad trying to draw something. It happens at random, and only when I put my pen against the pad. I'm 100% sure my hand is still and not shaking. what could be the problem? I've tried cleaning it.

Proskrito · Wed 08/12/2004 20:32:53

heh, the same thing happened to me. I was so afraid it was broken, but it seemed that my monitor (i believe) was causing interferences (sp?) with it. I just moved it further from the monitor and it worked fine again. Once i got it working properly, i placed the tablet back where it was and it kept working ok (dont ask me why), and thats never happened again. : )

Evil · Wed 08/12/2004 23:34:07

Replace the batteries and clean the plug. That fixed mine until I pulled the chord and the connection snapped. I've gone through 3 keyboards, 2 mice and a tablet that way.

scotch · Thu 09/12/2004 00:41:48

There are no batteries in a wacom pen, or tablet.
Not sure if the pen is really the cause of your problems, but replacement pens are pretty cheap iirc, I have an older wacom and finding a replacement pen here wasn't easy, but it wasn't expensive.
does it happen wherever on the tablet the pen is, or only in certain places? if it's the latter the actual tablet is probably bust

Haddas · Thu 09/12/2004 15:37:36

Thanks for the help people, although it hasn't worked. As scotch said wacom tablets need no silly batteries. Proskrito, I will try fiddling with the monitor and refresh rates etc.

Ishmael · Thu 09/12/2004 20:39:00

Your sister has used it ._.

Something I do with everthing that malfunctions is taking out the batteries and putting them back in, and usually after that it's working again. If not so, I throw the damn thing to some closet or something, and after a while (from a few weeks to a few years...) take it out and it works again. I don't know what it is, but modern (and modernish) electrick devices usually start working again if you let the just be for some time...

Darth Mandarb · Thu 09/12/2004 21:04:29

My first wacom tablet did this same thing ... so I bought another one.

Then when I upgraded to Windows XP a few years ago, the new tablet started doing it again.Ã,Â I was pretty ticked and couldn't solve the problem so I shelved the tablet for a bit (as Ishmael suggested) but when I took it out a year later it still didn't work.

This however might not have been a bad thing because with no tablet I started messing around with pixel art and that lead me down the road to AGS!

[ end ramble ]

veryweirdguy · Thu 09/12/2004 21:10:45

Ususally if that happens to my tablet I just restart the PC.....it seems to do wonders. It seems to be pretty random, I have no idea what does it, but I know that that often works for me. Simple, but true...

Ishmael · Thu 09/12/2004 21:11:34

[offtopic]One thing putting away for a long time doesn't fix, is headphones, microphones, and such... but it fixes mobile phones, oldish (game) consoles, sometimes even CD's...[/offtopic]

Proskrito · Thu 09/12/2004 21:36:03

To discard the pen as the problem, try using the mouse. If it trembles (Â¿?) aswell, before trashing it or getting a new one, try it on another computer.
I discovered my problem had to do with the monitor this way: i drew slowly a line with the monitor on. It was NOT a line as you can see ; ). Then, i switched off the monitor and drew (blindly : P) another one, and it was fine. Maybe the cause of your problem could be another thing, so try switching off or unplugging things that could be making interferences with the tablet. I hope you can solve this : )