Manually Configuring Your Serial Port - Smart Technologies Smart Board User Manual

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Turn on your computer.
The Ready Light on the Pen Tray will turn red. This indicates that the Pen Tray is
receiving power from the keyboard port on your computer.
When your Windows operating system starts, a Found New Hardware plug-and-play
wizard will lead you through the process of locating the SMART Board driver (which is
located on your hard drive).
6 Ensure that the Windows operating system searches your hard drive for the SMART
Board driver. The driver is normally located in the PNP Drivers folder in the SMART
Board Software program directory on your hard drive.
Once you've completed the plug-and-play wizard, the Ready Light on your Pen Tray
will turn from red to green. This indicates that your interactive whiteboard is now touch
sensitive.
7 If you added the SMART Board icon to your StartUp menu during the software
installation, the SMART Board tools will automatically start when you restart your
computer. However, you can also open SMART Board tools at any time by selecting
Start > Programs > SMART Board Software > SMART Board Tools. With SMART
Board tools started, you can now write over top of any application with a Pen Tray
stylus.
8 Press the SMART Board icon in the system tray and select Orient to perform a brief
procedure that orients the computer image on the interactive whiteboard, ensuring that
SMART Board software accurately tracks your touch (see page 9 for more
information).

Manually Configuring Your Serial Port

You may need to manually configure your serial port if:
•
the Windows operating system you're running does not perform plug and play (e.g.,
Windows NT 4.0 or ME operating system)
• the Found New Hardware wizard fails to appear
•
you plugged in your interactive whiteboard after you started your computer
•
the Ready Light simply remains red rather than turning green
To manually configure your serial (COM) port:
1 Click the SMART Board icon in the system tray and select Control Panel.
The SMART Board Control Panel will appear.
2 In the Boards tab, click the Connect button under Serial Ports.
The Select COM Port dialog box will appear.
3 If you know the COM port to which the SMART Board unit is connected, you can type it or
select it from the COM port drop-down list and click the Select button under Manual.
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