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Warren G.
Intuos 2 Crash with Win XP SP2
My Painter 8 (and photoshop, paint shop pro....) all
worked great with my intuos 2 tablet until I installed
Win XP SP2 in my Windows XP Professional system.
Then I got frequent SYSTEM crashes in which the screen
froze, the system did not respond to mouse, tablet, nor
keyboard. cntl-alt-del would not do anyting. I had to
electrically restart the system. This problem renderen
all my tablet sessions unusable without fail.
I tried reinstalling drivers for the tablet...
When I uninstalled SP2 for Windows XP, all these problems
disappeared.
Either SP2 has a critical flaw (for the small subset of
users who use graphics art tablets, or at least the Wacom
Intuos 2), or I had an SP2 install with a corrupted file.
Microsoft will force all XP installs to have SP2 by
Spring, 2005, so this could be an important issue.
I have a 3 GHz P4 / 800 MHz Bus Asus P4C800-E Delux / 1
GB memory / Geforce 5900FX Card.
The system is otherwise rock solid.
Warren G. (e-mail address removed)
My Painter 8 (and photoshop, paint shop pro....) all
worked great with my intuos 2 tablet until I installed
Win XP SP2 in my Windows XP Professional system.
Then I got frequent SYSTEM crashes in which the screen
froze, the system did not respond to mouse, tablet, nor
keyboard. cntl-alt-del would not do anyting. I had to
electrically restart the system. This problem renderen
all my tablet sessions unusable without fail.
I tried reinstalling drivers for the tablet...
When I uninstalled SP2 for Windows XP, all these problems
disappeared.
Either SP2 has a critical flaw (for the small subset of
users who use graphics art tablets, or at least the Wacom
Intuos 2), or I had an SP2 install with a corrupted file.
Microsoft will force all XP installs to have SP2 by
Spring, 2005, so this could be an important issue.
I have a 3 GHz P4 / 800 MHz Bus Asus P4C800-E Delux / 1
GB memory / Geforce 5900FX Card.
The system is otherwise rock solid.
Warren G. (e-mail address removed)