I've had it for years, an Intuous 9x12, running Win98, 512MB P3. I thought I had encountered most problems but today it has stopped working. Reinstalling the driver doesn't work, neither does the time honored method of deleting the wacom.dat file and rebooting. When touching the stylus or the cordless mouse to the surface gives the green light but the cursor is still frozen. The green light indicates that the tablet is reading the input device - mouse or stylus. Checking in Control Panel, clicking on Wacom tablet I get an error that says something like "There is no input device read. Please bring that device into proximity of the tablet." Or some such. Installing new program produces a dialogue that says (sic) "Unable to locate a driver for the PEN" but it has ALWAYS said that, from day one five years ago. This tablet is a serial one. Unhookd it and hooked up a serial mouse to the port and that worked, so don't think it is a port related issue. Went to Wacom.com and downloaded that driver, installed after deleting the original, still not working. So: The tablet seems to actknowledge that the input device is there but it doesn't work. Would HATE to go back to a mouse, even for a few days. Any one have an answer to this? Thanks. Larry F

My PenPertner (now on the scrap heap infavor of a graphire) did that a long time ago. It seemed like a ctach 22 It wouldn't load the driver without detecting the pen and it couldn't detect the pen because the driver didn't load. I found the main exe that rand the pen (Seems like it was tablet.exe) ran that. The pen snapped to life. Then while the pen was working I reinstalled the driver and it successfully detected the pen and cam back to life. Wacom said it was some weird com port problem. P.S. My graphire has never done any thing but work perfectly.

So, you would be of a mind that the graphire was better then? Can't say I disagree. Since I first got my Wacom, I've had occasional problems, the most persistent of which is about once a month or so, on three different machines, I've had to delete the "wacom.dat" file. But outside of this nagging kinds of stuff, admittedly sporadic, and long used to, it's been just great. I don't draw on the PC as much as I used to do with the mouse on my Amiga 2000 - weird I know - because I still like to do it the pencil/pen and ink on paper way - but I really am crazy about the stylus and tablet otherwise. Will be looking into the graphire though, just had a small windfall, so what the hey? Thank you. Larry F

Also, the grapphire drivers are compatible with the Intuos pad.... at least the older ones. I've had that happen twice when moving the Intuos to another machine, foolishly uninstalling the software. After pulling quite a bit of hair out, I tried installing the graphire software and it worked just fine.

Hi Judith, Yes, I'm past the hair pulling stage. Thinking of biting the bullet and doing a complete reformat and reinstall of everything, but I just did all that a month ago. Haven't recently installed anything new, other than Poser buys, i.e., Voluptuous Vickie, Saloon, etc., so I can't think of what may have caused this. Temporarily back to a mouse but hoping it's only temporary. Graphire is getting the old eyeball perusal. Thanks. Larry F

I have had this happen with my styalist II tablet a number of times. the way i was able to fix it was as follows. this is with win XP so you need to aply OS stuff as needed for 98. first shut off the puter. second unplug the tablit let sit for 60 full seconds. fire up the puter with out tablet conected. this will clear out the info in the wacom files. turn off the puter. conect the tablet and plug it in. boot computer. if the tablet is still working all should be ok. and the tablet back up and working. the total fix for this is to have your tablets power sapply turned off when the puter isnt running so put it on a protection strip or something if it isnt yet. leaveing it powered on all the time the tablet seems to get confused or something after a while and it just stops working till its unpluged let cool down then restarted by pluging it in. I have a master power control box under my moniter i use. and turn it off with the puter and moniters when not in use. and if im browsing i leave the tablet off and use my intelapoint for brosing or what ever and turn the tablet on only for drawing. hope this helps. Vel oh PS I did have a power saply go bad once, went to radio shack power saply in hand and got one from them. :) problem solved tablet worked fine after that and is when i started leaving it turned of when not in use as the power saply runs 24 hts a day even if the tablet is not in use if pluged in. byee and good luck Vel