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Purple Rain Man
Aug 17, 2010
Hello, I've got some questions about a Wacom tablet and I hope people in this thread can help me!

I work at a computer store and we frequently have people bring in "junk" for us to get rid of for them through our recyclers and such. Today, a man brought in a lot of "junk", and among it was a Wacom Intuos3 tablet that appears to be in good condition, although without a pen. When I plug it into my computer, its blue light turns on, and when I plugged it into a computer running Vista it actually installed the tablet. We couldn't get it to work, however, using other pens from tablets in our store.

Am I doing something wrong? Is it absolutely necessary to download software/drivers to see if this works? Will it work ONLY with Wacom pens?

Thanks in advance. :)

EDIT: Downloaded a driver from the Wacom website and now the scroll function works, as well as the control, shift, and alt keys near the scroll area. The space key, however, I can't get to work, and the tablet itself is still not working with the pen from another type of tablet. Any opinions/advice?

Purple Rain Man fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Jan 20, 2011

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Purple Rain Man
Aug 17, 2010

gmc9987 posted:

intuous 3 tablets will only work with intuous 3 pens.

Okay, good to know! I have a friend who told me that the media lab at his college uses Intuos3 tablets, so since it appears to be working when plugged into the USB (except the space button), I think my next step is to test it out with an Intuos3 pen at that lab before buying one online, just to be positive it works.

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