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- Jun 30, 2019
I was given a display graphics tablet for Christmas. Very cool! Except that it has seemingly sodomized my display driver mercilessly.
So the tablet is basically a third monitor with pen capabilities. I installed the drivers and software off the manufactures website. It didn’t detect my tablet. I unplugged it and plugged it back in. It still didn’t. I uninstalled and reinstalled via the program’s uninstaller. It still didn’t. I uninstalled the windows default graphics tablet drivers. It showed up till I restarted my PC and then never showed up again. I manually uninstalled the manufacter’s drivers and reinstalled them. It still didn’t. At this point the tablet doesn’t even show up as a USB device on the Device Manager so that’s something. I tried installing some optional firmware. It still didn’t. All this while resetting my PC many, many times and also unplugging and replugging in my tablet many, many times.
So now I think “Maybe I should uninstall my old tablet’s drivers.” Which disconnected all my monitors except the graphics tablet (I have no fucking clue how this happened since my old tablet is just a slab of plastic and has no display capabilities). I now have no monitors except for this fucking tablet. Apparently one of them is still being detected, but nothing physically shows up on the monitor. I roll back my display driver and then re-update it. They still won’t work. I checked to make sure the option to extend my displays is still checked off, it is. To be clear the screen isn’t just black, they aren’t getting a signal from my PC.
I have absolutely no idea what to do. The USB cables on the tablet seem to all be working. My monitors definitely work. I have Windows 10, and this is a full desktop. What in the fuck went wrong here. All I can think of is that my monitors got disabled in the BIOS since you have to turn on the option to have more monitors in the BIOS + use extra monitors with different graphics cards but how in the absolute fuck would a driver for a fucking slab of plastic you draw on fuck with my BIOS?
I’m only asking here and risking looking like a giant autistic because Reddit makes me feel like even more of a giant autistic whenever I interact with it in any shape or form.
So the tablet is basically a third monitor with pen capabilities. I installed the drivers and software off the manufactures website. It didn’t detect my tablet. I unplugged it and plugged it back in. It still didn’t. I uninstalled and reinstalled via the program’s uninstaller. It still didn’t. I uninstalled the windows default graphics tablet drivers. It showed up till I restarted my PC and then never showed up again. I manually uninstalled the manufacter’s drivers and reinstalled them. It still didn’t. At this point the tablet doesn’t even show up as a USB device on the Device Manager so that’s something. I tried installing some optional firmware. It still didn’t. All this while resetting my PC many, many times and also unplugging and replugging in my tablet many, many times.
So now I think “Maybe I should uninstall my old tablet’s drivers.” Which disconnected all my monitors except the graphics tablet (I have no fucking clue how this happened since my old tablet is just a slab of plastic and has no display capabilities). I now have no monitors except for this fucking tablet. Apparently one of them is still being detected, but nothing physically shows up on the monitor. I roll back my display driver and then re-update it. They still won’t work. I checked to make sure the option to extend my displays is still checked off, it is. To be clear the screen isn’t just black, they aren’t getting a signal from my PC.
I have absolutely no idea what to do. The USB cables on the tablet seem to all be working. My monitors definitely work. I have Windows 10, and this is a full desktop. What in the fuck went wrong here. All I can think of is that my monitors got disabled in the BIOS since you have to turn on the option to have more monitors in the BIOS + use extra monitors with different graphics cards but how in the absolute fuck would a driver for a fucking slab of plastic you draw on fuck with my BIOS?
I’m only asking here and risking looking like a giant autistic because Reddit makes me feel like even more of a giant autistic whenever I interact with it in any shape or form.
