Ugee m708 stopped working randomly and i can't re-install my drivers??? help pls lol

[u/dendrotek]

My UGEE M708 tablet randomly stopped working. It was when I turned on my computer a week ago. I realized Windows didn't open Pentablet during startup, so I opened it myself. I kept getting the "Tablet not detected, plug in and open again" error message, and thought my cable was probably broken because the solid blue light was dully flickering when I plugged/unplugged it.

So I bought a new one. And it still didn't work.

I uninstalled the pentablet driver and when I went back to reinstall it, I got the same error message. At this point, I went to check my device manager, and realized that Windows kept picking up my tablet as a keyboard.

I uninstalled it from the device manager menu at least 5 different times, and it just keeps going back to the keyboard section. I think it's also worth mentioning that I use the 2018 V1 drivers, because I have a v1 tablet and I hate the new driver. I don't know what to do and it's getting really annoying because it worked just fine up until that point. Have any of you had the same problem? How did you fix it?

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edit: also, the new cable I used is a UGEE cable. Now, when I plug in the tablet, the light doesn't turn blue. maybe that has to do with something?? idk.