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# it keeps thinking
that i'm holding the pen in the top right corner. and every time i try to do anythign with it it just click in that top right corner.
when i try to draw, it just gives me loads of lines from the top right corner to wherever it is i'm trying to draw.
i even took the damn thing apart trying to find whatever was wring with it but i haven't got a clue.
*sniffles*
first i lose photoshop, now my tablet! [this was done in Paint.net - hence roughness]
*sends you her now useless stylus*
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:02, archived)
# have you tried to re-install the software for it and re-calibrate it?
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:04, archived)
# aye. it just does the same thing again
it's like someone's holding a stylus at that point and it's getting confused between the two. but there's nothing there. i even opened it up and had a look inside.
grr. cheap tat! *strops*
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:09, archived)
# no, there are no moving parts
as the screen/pad is touch sensitive. My last PDA did exactly the same thing and is long in the bin.

I'd suggest you do what mofaha says and completely remove all trace of it from the PC and re-install with the latest driver but I strongly suspect the pad has gone tits up.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:13, archived)
# eeee!
dunno what it was but it's back.
*happies*
hah, now i feel all melodramatic.

thank you to everyone! *offers free hugs*
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:23, archived)
# thats just odd
sounds more like a connection that the board. you can get them very cheaply now. what happened to photoshop then??
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. Jesse. broke his ankle, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:05, archived)
# meh. it was a cheap thinger but i didn't expect it to die this soon! i've only had it about 4 months!
photoshop is on my PC which is 400 miles away because it was being repaired and now they're telling me they don't have a suitable box to ship it back to me in - even though i sent it to them in the original packaging. bastards.
so i'm stuck with my laptop which is practically pedal-driven. and Paint.net. which for freeware is great, ut just isn't the same as photoshop.
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:12, archived)
# download tattyshop cs3 trial from
adobe and use that for a month.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:14, archived)
# On a slow laptop?
I don't reckon that's going to work out.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:17, archived)
# ah yes, I speed read over that part.
I have tattyshop 7 somewhere about here which is free to anyone that wants it but you know, it's the internet and ladies should not swap addresses
with chaps they don't know.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:22, archived)
# aye.
put it this way - i can't play any music on my laptop because it kinda goes "what? eh? what's this? moo-zic? eh? well.. i dunno.. looks like witchcraft to me.. okay, if you insist, i'll givie it a g-OH MY GOD IT MAKES A NOISE! arrrgh! how do you stoppit!? oh god! oh god! what do i do? help! oh noes! it's all crazylike! um.. um.. um.. *dies*"

on the other hand it's all covered in sparkly stickers and has a smily face burned into its lid. *hugs it*
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:29, archived)
# it could even be a driver conflict with a mouse or something
sometimes your computer senses the mouse is moving as well as your tablet it spazzes out you get mad lines going everywhere. its a fun thing to do. this probably doesnt make sense.
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:21, archived)
# Wait wait wait...
1) restart your computer if you haven't already done so
2) if that doesn't work, look online for the latest driver for the tablet and try installing that, even if it's the same version you're using now. You may want to uninstall the current driver first if you do this, but check on the support section of the manufacturer's website
3) if everything else fails completely remove the tablet and its driver from your system and start again from scratch
Good luck!
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:06, archived)
# *hugs*
i'll try it now.
thankies!
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:14, archived)
# :)
I've just read your other comments and I'm thinking now that maybe there's a deeper problem, but this easy stuff is definitely worth a try anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:17, archived)
# squeee!
*joys*
*loves endlessly*
(I helped save b3ta! Seventh is somewhat subdued, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:22, archived)
# :)
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:33, archived)
# I would say try reinstalling the driver
but I'm an engineer so what do i know.

The normal solution i use is to suggest to "get a persuader on it" but this invalidates all known warranties.

Edit: Sorry, forgot to woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Bazmonkey baws!, Wed 30 May 2007, 1:08, archived)