'TouchIT' Screen

Connecting the 'Touch IT' Screen.

To connect the 'Touch IT' screen to your computer plug the lead into one of your available serial (comm.) ports, ensuring that the other end is fitted securely into the touch screen. Plug the power pack into the mains and load the appropriate driver software. Using the TouchIT driver, choose the Options button and from the Hardware section, select which comm. port your 'Touch IT' screen is connected to, it will be either, comm1 or comm2.

Trouble Shooting

Within the 'Touch IT' driver there is a self-diagnostics section, to access this load the 'Touch IT' driver, select the Options button and then select the Faults section. You will see a diagram of the screen with the unit's status listed in the middle, under this there will be a button marked, "Refresh". Make sure that all leads are connected firmly and that the unit has power connected and click on the Refresh button, the computer then does a quick check on the unit's status. If the screen is fine the status should say "No Failed Beams". If there is an error with any of the Infra red sensors the status will change to "Failed Beams", and there should be a red dashed line drawn on the diagram representing which sensor is not responding. If there is an error with the unit the status will display "Can't get error Report". This could be a lead not connected correctly, a conflict on the serial port or the main circuit board of the 'Touch IT' screen is not working.

If you are still having trouble getting the 'Touch IT' screen to work you will need to check if the computer has a conflict on the serial port that the 'Touch IT' screen is connected to. To do this you will need to do the following things:

• Check that there are no other software programs currently loaded that use the comm. port(s) within their settings, if there are the computer will see the comm. Port(s) as being in use as the other piece of software has the port active. To close the loaded driver you will need to check if there is an icon in the system tray, (this is next to your clock on the bottom right hand side of the screen. If so click on the icon with the right mouse button several options will appear you will need to click on the close or exit driver option.
  
  
• If you do not have any programs loaded that could be tying up the computers resources you will need to check the status of the comm. ports on your computer, to do this you will need to access the control panel within windows, Select Start then Settings then Control Panel , from the items listed on screen you will need to double click on System to open it.

From the headings at the top of this dialogue box you will need to select the Device Manager Section. The dialogue box will now show various icons for your hard disk monitor etc., from the list you will need to select ports , You should now see a line for comm1, comm2 and lpt1. Select comm. 1 and 2 in turn and click on the properties icon at the bottom of the screen. You will then need to check the information listed in the available screens to make sure that they say no conflicts and that the device is working correctly . Once the status for the relevant port is checked and appears correct you should be able to use your 'Touch IT' screen with your chosen programs.

Programs that can be used with 'Touch IT' screen and Touch Monitors include:

• Build It
  
• Clicker
  
• Doodle Plus
  
• Sound Stuff
  
• Touch Funfair
  
• Touch Games 1
  
• Touch Games 2
  
• Touch Here
  

If the computer reports a conflict with the port it should tell you which hardware device on your system is causing a conflict to enable you to rectify the problem.

The Touch IT screen includes the following Drivers:

• 8Windows 95 / 9
  
• Version 1.1 (for Windows 3.x)
  
• DOS
  
• Acorn

If you are still experiencing problems please check that you have installed the correct drivers. On Windows 95/98 machines you may experience difficulties if the version 1.1 drivers have been installed in error first, these must be removed completely before the Windows 95/98 drivers are installed.

If you are still experiencing problems with this product please complete the fault report form and our technical support staff will reply as soon as possible.