
Appendix B Troubleshooting and Support
The screen is unreadable or | Screen resolution and/or color | Reset resolution to 1024 x 768 |
distorted. | quality are set incorrectly. | and color quality to |
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| opening the Motion Dashboard, |
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| Graphics Properties, then the |
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| Schemes tab. |
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| Display driver has become | 1. Open the Windows Control |
| corrupted or uninstalled. | Panel, select Performance and |
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| Maintenance (Category View). |
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| or System (Classic View). |
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| 2. Select the Hardware tab. |
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| 3. Select Device Manager. |
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| 4. Open Display adapters. |
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| 6. Select the Driver tab. |
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| 7. Choose Update Driver... and |
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| follow the Installation Wizard. |
PEN |
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The Tablet PC digitizer screen | You’re using the wrong input | Only the Motion |
doesn’t respond to the plastic | device. | Pen lets you write on the Tablet |
stylus I use on my PDA. |
| display. The Tablet PC doesn’t |
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| respond to other tablet pens or to |
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| a plastic stylus. |
I have the Tablet PC Input Panel | You don’t have an application or | Either open the Text Preview |
open, but a few seconds after I | word processing program open to | window from the Tools menu on |
write, my writing disappears. | which the Input Panel can send | the Input Panel, or open a word |
| the ink message. | processing program, such as |
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| Microsoft Word, Notepad, or |
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| Wordpad. |
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The Motion | The pen and display need | |
tip doesn’t line up with the arrow- | recalibrating. | Settings icon and select the Pen |
cursor when I tap on the screen. |
| Settings tab. Or select Calibrate |
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| on the Motion Dashboard. |
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I sometimes unintentionally click | You’re pressing the Pen button | • Readjust how you hold the Pen. |
the Pen function button while I’m | with your thumb or finger when | Place your fingers on either side |
writing with the Pen. | you write or gripping the Pen too | of the Pen function button when |
| tightly and accidentally pressing | you write. |
| the Pen button. This enables the | • Practice using the Pen function |
| button with both your index fin- | |
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| ger and thumb to see which |
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| you prefer. |
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| • Relax your grip. Only a light |
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| touch is needed to write with |
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| the Pen. |
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| Deactivate the Pen |
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| function through Tablet and Pen |
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| Settings. Instead, press and hold |
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| the Pen to the display surface to |
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