HP Smart Client Administrator's Guide

Status icon
The fourth button displays an icon corresponding to the state of your smart client. Clicking on the icon
will give you a summary of the system state, and you can click the i button for further details.
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Error—a red X—There is a critical error such as lack of a network connection.
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Warning—a yellow triangle—There is a non-critical error such as inability to contact a Smart
Client Service. Clicking on the icon clears the warning status.
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Busy—a spinning circle—The client is busy and no errors are present. This state is shown when
networking is initializing, a connection is starting, etc.
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Idle—a question mark—The client is idle and no errors are present. Click on the icon to learn the
status of the system.
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Updating—spinning arrows—The client is currently receiving or installing an update from the HP
Smart Client Service.
USB boot
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Download image off web on page 55
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Reimage device on page 55
Download image off web
If the device beeps two times after it is powered on or does not appear to boot, then the device
firmware may be corrupt. It is possible to recover from this by downloading the Smart Client reimaging
tool from hp.com, installing the tools on a removable USB flash drive, and then booting the device from
the USB flash drive.
Reimage device
1. Download the image from the web.
2. Unpack the image to C:\USBBoot.
3. Format a USB flash drive.
4. Copy all files from C:\USBBoot into the root of the USB flash drive device.
5. Power off the thin client.
6. Insert the USB flash drive into the thin client.
7. Turn on the thin client.
8. The thin client will boot to the USB flash drive at this point.
9. Follow the menu to re-image the thin client.
10. Select the image you unloaded from the web in step 1.
USB boot
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