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Windows 7 x64 Ultimate crash with Wacom Intuos 3
This isn't a reply as such, but related I think in some way to what's been happening to so many others. The symptoms are somewhat the same, though they seem to differ every now and then.
Hi everyone, I've been looking around on these forums, and indeed on the internet for a few days now, and I'm about at my witts end.
I've got my copy of Windows 7 x64 Ultimate installed, and it's been really quite nice up until recently. I've got two video cards running on the system, either separately or in SLI depending on what need to get done, Gigabyte Nvidia 9600GT cards @1Gig Each. They too have been wonderful.
My Wacom Intuos 3 has been working really well up until about a week ago, and really that's where everything just went to hell. I tried opening After Effects to do some Post FX work, system locked up, the screens all went black, and that was the end of that, had to restart to get it back. I can tell now when it's going to happen, as the splash screen has either a small checkerboard patter of black squares, or black lines start appearing everywhere.
I then tried opening Premier, same problem, so I tried Photoshop, you can see where this is going?
I reformatted, as is my way when things start going wrong, makes it easy for me to figure out what's happening. I eventually narrowed it down to the Wacom Tablet, and when it happened again on a fresh install, tried removing the drivers. It still crashed, so I went back to a restore point before the drivers were installed, and I can work, but not in Photoshop, which is really my main program most of the time.
The device has been coming up as a USB device that is not recognized, and NOTHING can be done about that as far as I can figure, even unplugged if you restart the system, it goes wrong. I have no drivers installed, Wacom released the newest 6.12.5 drivers that I tried, and it all worked for about 24 hours, then when the system was restarted, device not recognized, and the crashes again. I'm posting with Wacom as well, but if anyone knows anything about this, I'm begging for your help at this point, I just want to work.