Creepy story - I fear my tablet
polycounter lvl 7
I little funny/creepy story here. (idk if right thread for this, but....)
In past few weeks, sometimes when I do some texturing work with my tablet (Wacom bamboo pen & touch) when I finish work and I put the pen aside of the tablet, weird things start to happen.
First it started to shake mouse cursor, there were just a ocassional small flicks happening from beginning but as I played some game they were appearing more and more and more until I couldnt even restart my PC (couldnt click because cursor was shaking like crazy) so i had to hardreset my PC.
That was like a few weeks ago.
In past week the tablet would again start moving the cursor to any direction randomly plus it would "left-click" randomly too so it would usually click on something in your web browser and open links or even change some settings in your program if (un)lucky, or whatever you can imagine.
This all would be I would say normal, you never know if your tablet dont have some dirt on it so it could cause all this. BUT yesterday/today it started to use various shorcuts. Yep, shorcuts! It started to hit "Alt+tab" to scroll throught windows/programs I have opened, it would hit "Alt+F4" to close program I was running, the white LED on it would flash like crazy and when I tried to disconnect it from USB port, in the last second before disconnecting it tried to turn off my PC!! I just got this standard WIN7 message "7 Programs need to close before shuting down" but fortunatelly I managed to hit "Cancel".
Shall i call an exorcist?
In past few weeks, sometimes when I do some texturing work with my tablet (Wacom bamboo pen & touch) when I finish work and I put the pen aside of the tablet, weird things start to happen.
First it started to shake mouse cursor, there were just a ocassional small flicks happening from beginning but as I played some game they were appearing more and more and more until I couldnt even restart my PC (couldnt click because cursor was shaking like crazy) so i had to hardreset my PC.
That was like a few weeks ago.
In past week the tablet would again start moving the cursor to any direction randomly plus it would "left-click" randomly too so it would usually click on something in your web browser and open links or even change some settings in your program if (un)lucky, or whatever you can imagine.
This all would be I would say normal, you never know if your tablet dont have some dirt on it so it could cause all this. BUT yesterday/today it started to use various shorcuts. Yep, shorcuts! It started to hit "Alt+tab" to scroll throught windows/programs I have opened, it would hit "Alt+F4" to close program I was running, the white LED on it would flash like crazy and when I tried to disconnect it from USB port, in the last second before disconnecting it tried to turn off my PC!! I just got this standard WIN7 message "7 Programs need to close before shuting down" but fortunatelly I managed to hit "Cancel".
Shall i call an exorcist?
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or:
1: Your tablet is defective
2:virus
3-There magnetic objects causing waves problems around your workdesk ( It happened to me)
4-windows doing it's usual thang..
ps:Thread subject asie, your work is amazing. I really am not the kind of guy that like weaponry props but those shots are really inspiring. Nice folio.
Ive seen the cursor shake, which can be caused by a power supply being too close, or a defective tablet. The shortcuts sound like buttons on it are stuck or shorting out. I had a problem with my Wacom2 where I had to disable the scroll bar, if i even casually grazed it, it would start spazzing out and scrolling up and down rapidly. Would sometimes fix itself if i unplugged it and plugged it back in, but most of the time required a restart.
tablet works fine, just always disable the scrollbar.
Well I defintelly dont have "ALt+tab" or "shutdown" mapped to my tablet haha, so I assume either windows or drivers problem
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My Wacom does goofy things when my Galaxy S3 is set down on it.
That'll be $29.95 for the exorcism.
Oh I like that reference
Maybe you`ve been drawing certain... runes, magical summon circles, spell insignias of the dark arts?
If that`s the case, consider handwriting a few pages of the holy scripts on your tablet. If that doesn`t cancel it out, contact your local priest at once. Should the tablet start hovering in mid-air before you get the chance to do so, run for your life - it`s probably conspiring with the printer to plot your death.
I have to much free time
It would do random input things i did in the past, even write things in search ive searched previously in windows or in browsers, totally creeped me out too , not sure anymore what removed it
Then again, I didn't have any issues to begin with...
Seriously though, don't eat next to your Wacom.