Cintiq issues
polycounter lvl 18
Has anyone had any hardware issues with their cintiqs before?
I recently purchased a new 21 incher (the new one was announced like 1 week after I had already ordered and received mine but anyways)....
I've had the following happen a couple times now where the unit behaves wierdly.
1. one time while working it acted as if one of the pins in the cable stopped receiving signal, thereby changing the color of the picture to something greenish. After a power off and back on this went away.
2. A second time (recently) the entire screen filled with white vertical lines. I could still see the picture, just with horrible white lines through it. I powered off my pc, and the problem persisted whenever I powered the cintiq back on (before it went to sleep). I unconnected all the cords and reconnected them, no luck. Finally it just magically "came back" after a little bit when I powered my machine back on to use my second monitor to search for issues related to this stuff.
I'm kinda worried with issues like this after less than a month that I may have a defective unit? Anybody else experience this stuff? I searched the forums and google and didn't turn anything up. I'm pretty sure it's not a video card issue since, as I said the unit had the lines running through it even when not recieving a signal from the pc.
I recently purchased a new 21 incher (the new one was announced like 1 week after I had already ordered and received mine but anyways)....
I've had the following happen a couple times now where the unit behaves wierdly.
1. one time while working it acted as if one of the pins in the cable stopped receiving signal, thereby changing the color of the picture to something greenish. After a power off and back on this went away.
2. A second time (recently) the entire screen filled with white vertical lines. I could still see the picture, just with horrible white lines through it. I powered off my pc, and the problem persisted whenever I powered the cintiq back on (before it went to sleep). I unconnected all the cords and reconnected them, no luck. Finally it just magically "came back" after a little bit when I powered my machine back on to use my second monitor to search for issues related to this stuff.
I'm kinda worried with issues like this after less than a month that I may have a defective unit? Anybody else experience this stuff? I searched the forums and google and didn't turn anything up. I'm pretty sure it's not a video card issue since, as I said the unit had the lines running through it even when not recieving a signal from the pc.
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I solved it by using the included DVI-I to DVI-D adaptor - this forces the Cintiq to use a digital signal (otherwise it seems to use an analog signal, or something, even over the DVI connector)
Might not help your problem - but just putting it out there as general help.
For Photoshop I usually set my pen buttons as keystrokes [ ] to increase/decrease brush size, and when I press and hold them they work the same as the keyboard, the brush size increases/decreases until button is released. With recent drivers (at least Nov. 2009 to now) I have to keep clicking the button to change brush size. Quite the annoyance on both Cintiq and Intuos4 on two different comps and PS.
WinXP 32
CS3
Win 7 64
CS4
Is there a setting to have the buttons work same as hotkeys or am I going to have to try older drivers until I find one that works?