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Smart Technologies SMART Board Installation Manual

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  • Page 3: Important Information I

    Important Information Please read this manual carefully before setting up and using the SMART Board™ for Flat-Panel Displays interactive whiteboard (SBFPD). Make sure an AC socket outlet is near the SBFPD and remains easily accessible WARNING during use. Assurez-vous qu’une prise secteur se trouve à proximité du SBFPD et demeure facilement accessible durant l’utilisation.
  • Page 4 AVERTISSEMENT Le SBFPD doit être utilisé uniquement avec les systèmes de distribution POUR LES d’alimentation européens TN et TT. CLIENTS Le SBFPD ne convient pas aux systèmes de distribution d’alimentation plus EUROPÉENS anciens de type IP utilisés dans certains pays européens. “Ce système (type IT) est largement utilisé...

  • Page 5: Other Precautions

    Other Precautions For operating safety and to avoid damage to the interactive whiteboard and its parts, please read the following information carefully. • If you transport the interactive whiteboard, we strongly urge you to completely repackage it using the original packaging. This packaging was designed with optimal shock and vibration protection.
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  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Important Information Other Precautions ........................... iii Introduction Interactive Whiteboard Technology ....................1 About This Guide ..........................1 Components of the Interactive Whiteboard..................1 Important Information about Compatibility ..................4 Installing SMART Board Software Installing the Interactive Whiteboard Preparing the Interactive Whiteboard for Use Opening SMART Board Software ....................
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  • Page 9: Introduction

    Introduction The SMART Board for Flat-Panel Displays interactive whiteboard adds touch-screen control and writing capability to your flat-panel display while only minimally increasing its depth. Flat-Panel Display Interactive Whiteboard Pen Tray The SMART Board for Flat-Panel Displays interactive whiteboard includes an overlay, SMART Board software and a pen tray equipped with an eraser and color pens.
  • Page 10 The Overlay The overlay, which includes embedded digital cameras in the top-left and top-right corners, is mounted onto your flat-panel display. Cameras Overlay The Pen Tray The pen tray attaches to your overlay and includes four colored pens and an eraser. To write over the computer image, just pick up a pen and write on the interactive whiteboard as you’d write on a standard whiteboard.
  • Page 11 • Floating Tools – a virtual palette of writing tools that increases the screen’s interactive functionality, even if you don’t have a pen tray • SMART Board Control Panel – allows you to customize the writing tools and to change the SMART Board software settings •...

  • Page 12: Important Information About Compatibility

    Important Information about Compatibility Each SMART Board for Flat-Panel Displays interactive whiteboard comes with a SMART USB adapter cable that connects the interactive whiteboard to your computer. The adapter cable works only with version 8.1.3 (or later) of SMART Board software for Windows operating systems or version 8.1.2 (or later) of SMART Board software for Macintosh computers.

  • Page 13: Installing Smart Board Software

    Installing SMART Board Software For the SMART Board for Flat-Panel Displays interactive whiteboard to function properly, you must have SMART Board software running on a connected computer. Don’t connect the SMART USB adapter cable to the computer until after you’ve CAUTION installed SMART Board software! If you do this by accident, the Found New Hardware wizard appears.
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  • Page 15: Installing The Interactive Whiteboard

    Installing the Interactive Whiteboard IMPORTANT The installation procedure varies depending upon whether you ordered your interactive whiteboard with or without a pen tray. To install your SMART Board for Flat-Panel Displays interactive whiteboard, you’ll have to: 1. mount the overlay on the flat-panel display (see below) 2.
  • Page 16 2. With the assistance of another person, carefully remove the flat-panel display from the wall mount or the stand, and place it facedown on a flat surface. Adapter Plate Flat-Panel Display Adapter Plate Bolts NOTE: The appearance of your flat-panel display and its adapter plate can vary from the diagrams shown in this section.
  • Page 17 5. Place the mounting bracket’s center section on a flat surface with the arrows pointing upwards and the text “Install Left Hanger Here” on your left. Mounting Bracket Center Section Text Up Arrow 6. Attach the left hanger bracket to the left side of the mounting bracket’s center section using T-handles and carriage bolts.
  • Page 18 If your plasma panel has 8 mounting holes, 2 mounting options may exist. Use the option which does not obscure adjacent mounting holes. © 1997-2005 SMART Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. Expression and the SMART logo are trademarks of SMART Technologies Inc. 99-00617-00-A0 IMPORTANT Obtain the best possible alignment before mounting either the flat-panel display or the overlay.
  • Page 19 10. Add a supplied washer to each of the exposed adapter plate bolt holes. Don’t add washers to the two holes covered by the mounting bracket. The washers compensate for the mounting bracket’s thickness. Washers Adapter plate bolt holes 11. Attach the adapter plate over the mounting bracket and the washers using the bolts you removed in step 3.
  • Page 20 12. Loosen the T-handles on the hanger brackets. Push these brackets towards the flat surface and then tighten the T-handles. T-handles Hanger Bracket 13. With the assistance of another person, mount the flat-panel display onto a wall mount or onto a stand.
  • Page 21 16. Place the overlay facedown on a flat surface. IMPORTANT In the next step, you’ll attach two adjustment handles to the overlay. However, take a moment to familiarize yourself with how to tighten and loosen these handles before you attach them. 17.
  • Page 22 18. With the assistance of another person, mount the overlay onto the flat-panel display by sliding the adjustment handles into the U-shaped slots in the hanger brackets. Flat-Panel Display Hanger Bracket Overlay NOTE: The adjustment handle and the washer must slide behind the hanger brackets. Ensure the handles are aligned with the hanger brackets’...
  • Page 23 19. With the assistance of another person, and while supporting the overlay, loosen both adjustment handles, vertically adjust the overlay so that you can see most of the flat-panel display’s screen, and then tighten the handles. You will vertically adjust the overlay more accurately in step 21.
  • Page 24 21. With the assistance of another person, and while supporting the overlay, loosen both adjustment handles, vertically adjust the overlay so that you can see all of the flat-panel display’s screen, and then tighten the handles. Overlay Adjustment Handle Flat-Panel Display NOTE: To continue the installation, attach either a pen tray (see below) or a controller (page 19).
  • Page 25 NOTE: Depending upon where and how the interactive whiteboard is mounted, you may need to perform the following steps by touch due to reduced visibility. CAUTION Don’t connect the interactive whiteboard to the computer until after you've installed SMART Board software. For more information, see page 5. 1.
  • Page 26 You’ll connect the other end of this cable to your computer when you complete the installation. NOTE: You can order a straight-through DB9-to-DB9 serial cable from SMART Technologies. To do this, contact SMART Technical Support (page 33).
  • Page 27 To attach the controller CAUTION Don’t connect the interactive whiteboard to the computer until after you’ve installed SMART Board software. For more information, see page 5. If you purchased the SMART Board for Flat-Panel Displays interactive whiteboard without the pen tray, you must install a controller unit.
  • Page 28 You’ll connect the other end of this cable to a serial port on your computer when you complete the installation. NOTE: You can order a straight-through DB9-to-DB9 serial cable from SMART Technologies. To do this, contact SMART Technical Support (page 33).
  • Page 29 To complete the installation 1. Connect the MOD8 cable to the corresponding port on the back of the overlay. You connected the other end of this cable to either the pen tray or the controller earlier. Port NOTE: Your configuration may have a controller instead of a pen tray.
  • Page 30 You need to select the computer’s serial port in the SMART Board software (page 26) after you’ve connected the interactive whiteboard. NOTE: You can order a straight-through DB9-to-DB9 serial cable from SMART Technologies. To do this, contact SMART Technical Support (page 33).
  • Page 31 6. Attach the eraser’s retaining wall and place the eraser in its slot. Eraser Retaining Wall 7. Place the four pens in the appropriate locations. Black Pen Blue Pen Red Pen Green Pen 99-00667-00 B0 Installing the Interactive Whiteboard...
  • Page 32 Installing the Interactive Whiteboard 99-00667-00 B0...

  • Page 33: Preparing The Interactive Whiteboard For Use

    Preparing the Interactive Whiteboard for Use When you’ve installed SMART Board software (page 5), set up your SMART Board for Flat-Panel Displays interactive whiteboard and connected it to the computer (page 7), the interactive whiteboard still isn’t quite ready to use. You must: •...

  • Page 34: Configuring The Com Port For A Serial Connection

    To orient the interactive whiteboard 1. Press the SMART Board icon in the system tray (Windows computers) or in the Dock (Macintosh computers), and press Orient. The orientation screen appears. 2. Follow the on-screen instructions, pressing your finger squarely on each target. NOTE: If you press on the targets out of sequence or inaccurately, a Bad Orientation Point dialog box appears.

  • Page 35: Setting Up The On-Screen Display Control

    4. If you know to which port you connected the interactive whiteboard, select Manually choose COM port. The Select COM Port dialog box appears. Highlight the correct port from the list, and press Select. If you’re unsure of the correct port, click the Automatically Detect SMART Hardware button. SMART Board software locates the correct port for the attached interactive whiteboard.

  • Page 36: Using The Smart Bulb Saver

    To configure an On-Screen Display Controller 1. If you haven’t already done so, connect the flat-panel display to your computer. (See the previous procedure.) 2. Press the SMART Board icon in the system tray and press Control Panel. 3. Press SMART Board Settings. 4.

  • Page 37: Configuring The Display Control Icon Strip

    To activate the SMART Bulb Saver 1. Connect a serial cable from the flat-panel display to an available serial port on your computer. NOTE: You may already have connected the flat-panel display to the computer to activate the On-Screen Display Control (page 28). 2.
  • Page 38 The table below summarizes the function of each icon in the strip. Press this icon... To do this... Put the flat-panel display into sleep or standby Sleep Mode Activation mode Select an input source (e.g., computer, VCR or Input Source Selection DVD player) Select a screen width option Display Mode Toggle...

  • Page 39: Cleaning And Troubleshooting

    Cleaning and Troubleshooting Cleaning Shut down your computer before you clean the interactive whiteboard. If you touch the interactive whiteboard when the computer is in any other state (for example, with a program open or at the desktop), you can activate program components or scramble desktop icons. Clean the interactive whiteboard surface regularly so that dust buildup doesn’t interfere with the interactive whiteboard’s operation.

  • Page 40: Calibrating The Cameras

    If you encounter a problem with the interactive whiteboard, check all the cable connections. If this doesn’t solve the problem, note the color of the LEDs described above and contact SMART Technical Support (page 33). Calibrating the Cameras Digital cameras in the corners of the interactive screen track objects such as your finger or a pen tray pen.

  • Page 41: Customer Support

    Customer Support Online Support www.smarttech.com/support Visit the SMART Technologies support site to view and download user’s guides, “how-to” and troubleshooting articles, software and more. Training Visit www.smarttech.com/trainingcenter for free training materials and information about our training services. Contacting SMART Technical Support SMART Technical Support welcomes your call.

  • Page 42: Registration

    Registration To help us serve you, register online at www.smarttech.com/registration. Sending Feedback You can help us improve our technical documentation by e-mailing your comments to Documentation@smarttech.com. Obtaining More Information on SMART Products Visit www.smarttech.com/support • download PDF versions of our user guides, installation instructions and more •...

  • Page 43: Index

    Index Installing Completing the Installation 21 Controller 19 Activating the SMART Bulb Saver 29 Interactive Whiteboard 7 Mounting the Overlay 7 Pen Tray 16 SMART Board Software 5 Bad Orientation Point 26 Interactive Whiteboard Bracket 7 Cleaning 31 Bulb Saver see SMART Bulb Saver Completing the Installation 21 Installing 7 Orienting 26...
  • Page 44 Overlay Introduction 2 Mounting 7 Using Display Control Icon Strip 30 On-Screen Display Controller 28 SMART Bulb Saver 28 Pen Tray Installing 16 Introduction 2 Preparing the Interactive Whiteboard for use 25 Video Player SMART Board Software 2 Quick Orientation 25 Recorder 2 Removing the Display Control Icon Strip 30 Screen Saver 27...

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