User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Product Registration
- Important Information
- Contents
- About Your SMART Board 600 or SBD600 Series Interactive Whiteboard
- In This Chapter
- Features
- How Does Your SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Work?
- Included Accessories
- Optional Accessories
- Serial RS-232 Expansion Module
- The serial expansion module connects to the controller module on the back of your interactive whiteboard.
- Wireless Bluetooth Connection
- SystemOn Expansion Module
- USB Audio System
- Active USB Extension Cables
- Projector Wall-Mount (Models 680 and SBD680 only)
- SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Floor Stand (Models 640, 660, 680 and SBD680 only)
- SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Table Stand
- Installing and Securing Your SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard
- In This Chapter
- Environmental Requirements
- Mounting Your SMART Board 660, 680 or SBD680 Interactive Whiteboard on a Floor Stand
- Wall-Mounting Your SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard
- Securing the Pen Tray and Interactive Whiteboard
- Removing the Pen Tray
- Connecting Your Interactive Whiteboard to Your Computer
- In This Chapter
- Overview
- System Power Safety and Precautions
- Connecting with a USB Cable
- Installing SMART Product Drivers
- Connecting Using the Optional RS-232 Serial Expansion Module
- Connecting with the Wireless Bluetooth Connection Option
- Configuring Your Computer Settings
- Orienting Your Interactive Whiteboard
- Connecting a Guest Laptop
- Connecting Multiple Interactive Products
- Using and Maintaining Your SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard
- Troubleshooting Your SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard
- In This Chapter
- Adjusting the Projected Image
- Resetting Your Interactive Whiteboard
- Troubleshooting Using the Ready Light
- Flowchart 1: Getting Started
- Flowchart 2: Ready Light Off
- Flowchart 3: Ready Light Red
- Things to try first:
- • Disconnect and then reconnect the USB cable at both ends to reset your interactive whiteboard and reestablish the link.
- • If the Ready light changes from green to red while your computer is running, the computer might become unresponsive. Restart your computer.
- • An alternating red/green light might indicate that your computer is running too many other applications or doesn’t meet minimum specifications. Reduce the load on your computer by closing unnecessary applications, or replace it with a more powe...
- Things to try first:
- Flowchart 4: Ready Light Flashing Green
- Flowchart 5: Ready Light Steady Green
- A steady green Ready light indicates that the controller is operating normally. If the pen tray failed or isn’t communicating with the controller, your interactive whiteboard will still operate in mouse mode. When you reset your interactive whitebo...
- Troubleshooting Tips
- Where to Find More Information
- Contacting SMART Technical Support
- Hardware Environmental Compliance
- Customer Support
- Index
42 | CONNECTING YOUR INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD TO YOUR COMPUTER
Connecting a Guest Laptop
If you want to connect a guest laptop without installing SMART product drivers on it,
disconnect the USB cable from your resident computer, and then connect it to the
laptop. You’ll immediately have touch control of your interactive whiteboard. However,
you’ll need to connect a video cable between the laptop and projector.
NOTES
• With this setup, the Ready light on your interactive whiteboard will
continuously blink. This is normal. See page 52 for more information about
Ready light states.
• If your interactive whiteboard connects to the resident computer with an
RS-232 serial cable or a wireless Bluetooth connection, you don’t have to
disconnect it. The USB cable connection to the guest laptop overrides the
expansion module connection.
Connecting Multiple Interactive Products
You can connect more than one interactive product to your computer. For example,
you can have two SMART Board interactive whiteboards connected to one computer
and have touch control of each product.
NOTE
If you’re using more than one interactive whiteboard, you’ll need a projector
for each unit.
After you set up your equipment, configure SMART product drivers. First, decide how
you want the displays to work together.
• You can present the same desktop on all products, enabling people in different
locations to view the same image. To achieve this effect, daisy chain the
projectors or use a distribution amplifier to send the computer’s video signal
to more than one display or projector.
• You can also present different views of the same desktop across interactive
products. With this option, you have the flexibility of opening one window on each
screen, or splitting one application across multiple screens. To set this up, you
must send the video signal from the computer to each display or projector. To do
this, your setup must include one of the following:
– a separate video card in your computer for each projector or each display
– a video card that splits the video signal and sends it to multiple displays
– a video distribution amplifier between your computer and the projectors
or displays