How To Stop a House Burglar Alarm That Won't Go Off and Stop Beeping

An alarm protects your home from getting broken into because if the burglars attempt to break in, the alarm will set off and they don't like that! If your house burglar alarm is beeping really loud for the sake of it, the people in your neighborhood will start to get annoyed and you will be panicking trying all sorts of solution to stop the alarm siren from beeping so loud. Don't worry though because i have the top 3 instructions that are guaranteed...

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How To Save Xbox 360 Games To a USB External Flash Drive

Thanks to Microsoft adding usb ports on the Xbox 360 console, it means you can insert a usb flash drive into one of them add copy games. If you are running out of storage space on the hard drive, you can copy some games onto a usb memory stick, to free up space on the hard drive. Your usb flash drive must be a minimum of 1 GB and a Maximum of 16 GB and has to compatible with FAT 32, for it to work.Instructions:1)Power on the Xbox 360 console and...

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How To Connect 6x9 Speakers To Head Unit, Not To an Amplifier

If you have fitted a pair of 6x9 speakers in your cars parcel shelf and you want to power them and you don't have a car amplifier to give them full bass and treble potential, then you can connect the 6x9 speakers to the car head unit and get similar sound results. Wiring 6x9 speakers is not an impossible task; all that is required is speaker wires connectors and insulation tape.Instructions:1)Get your speaker wires and on each ends, attach the connectors...

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Do Subwoofer Enclosure Terminal Cups Melt When It Comes To Big RMS Power?

Can the terminal cups used on subwoofer enclosures melt?A terminal cup is fitted into a subwoofer enclosure, to make connecting and disconnecting it from the amplifier much more easier, as all you have to do is unscrew the terminals and slip in or out the speaker wires and screw them back up. But there are known to cause leaks in a enclosure, if they are not sealed up correctly around the edges, as air can escape easily out, therefore reducing sound...

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How To Clean a Car CD Player Head Unit

After some time, the faceplate on your CD player car head unit will become dusty and dirty and if cleaned, it will look brand new, once again.Instructions:1)You want to get hold of a cleaning cloth that is has soft fibers, you could use a dashboard cleaning cloth, but make sure you don't use a towel because you don't the appropriate cloth, you will cause large scratches to be visible and seen on the faceplate. 2)Dashboard cleaning spray works perfect...

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How To Clean a Car Subwoofer Without Damaging The Cone

If a car subwoofer is dusty, the dust can enter into the voice coil, make the sound quality suck, it can also make the sub look like crap, so give it a quick clean, it won't take you long. When cleaning a car subwoofer, you have to be extremely careful, as some parts are very delicate and could get damaged if you apply to much pressure.Instructions:1)If you car subwoofer has a protective grill placed in front of it, you will need to clean that first....

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How To Clean a Car Exhaust Muffler Backbox

If you cleaned the bodywork, wheels and interior of your car, the only that will make the car disappointing to look at is a dirty looking exhaust muffler. The exhaust allows hot exhaust fumes to exist through the muffler, this can cause the colour of the outer metal around the muffle to look burned and discoloured. You could get a jet wash and place the spray hose into the exhaust, but that will cause the inside of it to rust, which will shorten...

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What Does Decat Mean On a Car?

What does decat mean on a car?The word decat, stands for D-for delete and C-for cat, which stands basically for a deleted catalytic converter. A car exhaust system has a catalytic converter fitted to it, to remove the dangerous gases created by gasoline burned in the engine. The job of it is to make them less harmful, when released into the atmosphere. To decat an exhaust system, you will need to remove the catalytic converter and replace it with...

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What Is a Car Catalytic Converter For?

There are millions and millions of cars and trucks on the road today that are causing a ton of pollution into the atmosphere around use, this can create big problems for all of us and the environment. So to eliminate it happening from cars and trucks, a catalytic converter is placed in line with a car exhaust system to convert harmful and dangerous pollutants from the fuel, that are Hydrocarbons, Nitrogen Oxides and Carbon Monoxide, converting them...

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How To Remove a Catalytic Converter From a Car Exhaust System

If you want to remove the catalytic converter from your cars exhaust system and you want a louder sounding exhaust, you might want to replace it with a straight pipe, to decat the exhaust. Or you might want to replace it with a brand new catalytic converter, if the current one that is fitted is damaged. In order to replace it, you will need to know how to do so, to help you remove it, i have provided instructions below:  1)Drive your car to a location that has a flat, solid surface, then jack up the car and place it on jacks stands.2)Now you...

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How to Remove a Car Subwoofer

If you need that extra storage space in your car, you will need to use your trunk for it, but if there is a big car subwoofer in it, you don't have no storage space in your car, as it takes all the room up. If don't want a car subwoofer because you no longer want to be listening to bass. If so, for both reasons, you might want to remove and to help you do that, instruction are provided below:Instructions:1)Open the trunk, if the car subwoofer is powered by a car audio amplifier, then before you removing anything, open the hood and disconnect the...

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How To Magnetize a Screwdriver Bit Tip Quickly

If a screwdriver has a magnetized tip, it can hold a screw in place and prevent the screw from falling off the bit. Some good quality screwdrivers are already magnetized from the factory, however some cheap ones are not. So you can make your non magnetized screwdriver, magnetized, yourself.Instructions:1)Get a wire stripper and strip off 1 inch of exposed of the copper core found on each end of the wire.2)Next, wrap the wire numerous times around...

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How To Fix Crackling Computer Speakers

If you notice a crackling sound from your computers speakers when they are turned on and are playing sound, then it can make the sound irritating to your ears. If your computer speakers are making crackling noises, then the solutions are below to put it to a stop:1)The sound card could be faulty, so plug the 3.5mm jack from the speakers, that connects into the green socket on the sound card into a mobile phone or mp3 player. Then to test if the sound...

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How To Clean Out & Unclog a Dity Clogged Car Fuel Filter

A fuel filter is fitted into a car engine to stop impurities occurring in the fuel or from older fuel in the tank, from reaching the car engine. If the fuel filter becomes dirty and clogged, it can make your car shake at idle, your car will frequently stall, it will also struggle to start up and the power and performance will be certainly decreased. So you could replace clogged fuel filter, or you could clean it, which is easy for anybody to do and...

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How To Stop Your Car From Shaking When at Idle

If your car shakes, when it is at idle, during traffic, it can get annoying, as the complete car shakes, even the steering wheel shakes, making your hands vibrate! If you find that your car is shaking when stopping and you find it a problem, then the solutions to resolve it are provided for you below:1)If your car shakes when you step on the brakes, while driving and your car shakes like mad, then i would certainly suggest you to have a garage to...

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How To Fix a Car Window That is Off Track

A common thing that happens to the driver's side car window, is that it gets stuck, when a drivers side window is stuck, it usually shows a clue that the window is off track, the track inside the actual door frame. If your driver's side window is automatic or manual, it still moves up and down by rollers on a track. You could go to a car window technician to get it fixed, but you can do it yourself, as it is not that hard to sort out this problem.Instructions:1)Revise...

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How To Replace a Cigarette Lighter Socket/Plug In a Car

If the cigarette lighter socket in your car is not working because you have tested it and it is faulty, then you will need to replace it. You can get it replaced by a qualified car technician, but you can also replace and install it yourself, to save some money.Instructions:1)First locate the fuse that is protecting the cigarette lighter plug you want to replace, then remove the fuse to break the circuit. Removing the fuse is vital because if you...

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How To Fix Nokia N91 Hard Drive Not Available/Not Found Solutions To This Problem

The Nokia n91 is the best mobile phone, when it comes to music, with high end sound quality and has enough storage for tons of high quality encoded music, but it suffers the common hard disk error. If you have a Nokia n91 and you get an error message displayed on the screen that says "Hard drive Unavailable" or "Hard drive not found", then i have the solutions to this problem.The common working solution to fix this dreaded problem, is to reset the...

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How To Fix a Nokia N95 screen with No Backlight

If your Nokia n95 mobile phone has no backlight, to light up the LCD screen, then you can hardly see what is being displayed. This is because the backlight acts as a torch; it is placed behind the screen to brighten it up. If your Nokia n95 screen has no backlight, then the solutions to fix this problem are below: 1)It could be a bug in the firmware version that your Nokia n95 is currently running, a bug that can disable the backlight to work. So...

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What Does Lows, Mids and Highs Mean In Car Audio?

In car audio, there are three components that create sounds, which are lows, mids and highs that all, well most car audio enthusiasts are aware about. But there are some new comers and don't really have a clue on what they mean. So i am going to explain all three to you.  Lows stands for low frequencies that are between 20-120 Hz, it is the frequencies that creates the boom boom sound, called bass. Lows are meant to be played on a car subwoofer,...

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How To Make a Slow Sony Ericsson W995 Faster

If you experience that your Sony Ericsson w995 is buggy and slow, it can lead to the mobile phone screen to hang and freeze up the mobile phone, making it unusable. I have a Sony Ericsson w955 as my daily mobile phone and the sound quality for music is great, but even for me, this handset performs so slow, so i came up with tips to help speed up the processor and ram speed and it helped increase the phones performance dramatically. So i have listed...

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How To Soft Reset a Nokia 5800 To Factory Settings, Using a Reset Code

If you want to soft reset your Nokia 5800 to factory settings, this can be done by entering a soft reset code into the handset.1)Make sure the battery is charged, if the battery has no power, leave it on charge and power it on, using the power from the charger.2)Power on the mobile phone, once it is on, enter the following soft reset code in the dialer screen: *#7370#.3)Once you have entered that reset code into your Nokia 5800, it will then ask...

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How To Perform a Hard Reset On a Nokia N91 Phone, Using a Master Reset Solution

If you want to completely remove all the data that is stored your Nokia n91 internal hard drive, then you will need to perform a hard reset on your phone.Instructions on how to reset a Nokia n91:1)Make sure the battery has at least 10% of battery remaining on it, if the battery is flat, then plug it in for a charge.2)Make sure the Nokia n91 is switched off.3)Now you will need to hold down three buttons that activate the hard reset function to work,...

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How To Soft Reset a Nokia N91Phone Using a Reset Code

If you want to reset your Nokia n91 to factory settings, this can be done by using a soft reset code that Nokia has created. This will not remove any passwords or security codes! Instructions on how to soft Reset a Nokia n91 mobile phone:1)Make sure the battery has at least 10% battery life remaining on it, if the battery is completely dead and the Nokia n91 will not power, leave it on charge.  2)Once the Nokia n91 has sufficient battery...

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How To Make The Screen Rotate On a Nokia N95 Automatically

If you have a Nokia n95 mobile phone and you want the screen to automatically rotate, when you move the Nokia n95 horizontal, then you will need to make sure it is running the latest up-to-date firmware version. This is because the older firmware versions didn't include the rotate feature, as the automatic screen rotation is added to the latest firmware version, officially by Nokia.If you don't have a computer, with internet access, or don't have...

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How To Fix & Repair a Video Tape That Is Chewed Up Or Tangled Inside

If you have a video tape that has the brown film chewed up or tangled inside, you can't use it again. The main possible reason why your video tape got chewed up or tangled is because the head on your VHS player is probably been magnetized from other video tapes your have inserted into it. You are supposed to use a demagnetizer cassette to prevent this to happen, so remember next time! Instructions:1)Get hold of the video tape that is chewed or tangled...

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How To Demagnetize a Tape Deck Head

It is very important to demagnetize a tape deck head every so often because they can become magnetized from the passage of the tape through the deck. If this happens, your tape player will cause a reduction in sound quality, it can also lead to cassette playback problems, which can cause film inside tapes to get tangled. But this problem can be dealt with cassette demagnetizer, which can be bought from all good audio shops.Instructions on how to...

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How To Clean The Head On a Cassette/Tape Player, Using a Head Cleaner

If you get a hissing sound, when your are playing a cassette, through your speakers, there is a likely chance that the head inside the tape player has become dirty. The head can become dirty because you might have inserted old, dusty cassettes into the tape player, causing the dirt on the film to transfer dust onto the head. If the head on your tape player is dirty, then purchase a head cleaner kit. Most kits contain a bottle of rubbing alcohol...

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How To Make a Non Turbo Charged Car Engine Sound Turbo

If the engine inside your car is a non turbo charged, it means you can't heat sounds that a turbo charged engine can produce, sounds such as a blow off valve blowing off into the atmosphere, or a turbo spool whine or whistle, when the turbo spools up. However, if you can't afford to add a turbo to your ride and still want hear sounds of a turbo on your car, i have some very good alternatives that you will like.1)If you have a Apple iphone, you can...

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How To Turn On a Xbox 360 Console With a Controller

If you want to turn on your Xbox 360 console without pressing the down the power button on the front of the console, you can power it on with a controller instead. If you want to power on your Xbox 360 console using your controller, follow the instructions below:Your Xbox 360 power supply adapter must be connected into a live electrical outlet and connected to your console, for this method to work.1)Make sure your controller has 2 AA batteries that...

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How To Turn Off a Xbox 360 Console With a Controller

If you can't be bothered to move from your sofa, to turn off the Xbox 360 console, you can turn it off with a controller, without getting up and holding down the power button on the console to turn in off. It simple and easy for you do, just follow the instructions that are provided below:1)When your Xbox 360 is on, with the controller connecter, hold down the "Guide" button down for three seconds.2)Look on your television screen, next you have two...

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How To Fix Charger Not Supported Problem On Your Nokia Mobile Phone, Solutions To The Problem

If you are using a car or home charger, to charge up your Nokia mobile phone and a error message on the screen displays "Charger Not Supported", the battery will not charge up. Basically this message is telling you that the charger you are using to charge up your Nokia mobile phone is not compatible with the battery and the phone. If you get that kind of message displayed on your Nokia mobile phone, try the solutions that are given below to fix this...

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Can You Make a MP3 128 Kbps Into a 320Kbps High Sound Quality File, By Upping The Bitrate, Is It Possible?

There are many people that are asking if they can increase the sound quality in a mp3 file that already has poor bitrate, by upping the bitrate size, using a audio converter.Yes, you can increase the bitrate size of a mp3 file, by upping it, however you will get no improvement in sound quality, it will just show a high bitrate, in the media player. This is because a low bitrate mp3 file has detail that is already lost, if you up the bitrate, were...

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How To Increase Sound Quality On a Onboard Sound Card

Most modern computers and laptops on the motherboard, have on board sound, sound that is already on the board, so your computer or laptop doesn't require a add on sound card. Most on board sound cards on high end motherboards sound pretty good and is really no better than a additional sound card, unless you have studio headphones or high quality speakers, you can't really tell the difference. However, some people say that the sound quality using...

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What is Gain Control Setting On an Car Audio Amplifier?

On all car amplifiers, they have a gain that is a small potentiometer that acts as a variable resistor, that you can increase and decrease, using a screwdriver, this is to match the voltage with a car amplifier and car head unit, voltage which is provided by the car head unit RCA voltage, that is provided through the RCA cables into the car amp RCA inputs. The gain level has to match the car head unit and amps voltage, for optimal sound quality and...

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How To Fix a Car Stereo That Loses My Audio Presets Settings

If you have a car stereo that allows you to make your own custom equalizer presets, such as increase and decrease treble and bass and you have fine tuned them, when you turn off your car, does you car stereo lose your presets when your turn the stereo back on?1)If this is situation, your car head unit is not remembering your presents because the memory wire is not connected with the live wire. The memory wire makes the stereo remember its settings,...

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How To Connect & Hook Up & Setup PC Speakers To a Computer

If you have bought a set of computer speakers and you want to use them with your computer, so you can play games, listen to music or watch movies and hear the sound using them, you will need to hook them up to your computer. A computer has a sound card or on board sound, which is basically electronic components that deliver sound to your speakers. If your PC speakers are stereo ones, in other words there is two speakers, one speaker is left and other...

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How To Wire a Car Stereo In a House

If you have a spare car stereo in your house, that you don't want to install in your car and you want to connect it in your house, you will require a power supply that can provide constant 12 volts because all car stereos require 12 volts to turn on. Most people use a old or spare computer power supply unit because it can produce 12 volts, you can use it too. Most computer psu's are about 20-25 amps, a car head unit requires about 10 amps,...

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How To Make a Car Head Unit Turn On With The Ignition Off

If you have an in car dvd player in your car and want to watch a movie or want to listen to some music, when you turn the ignition off, it is possible. Most car head units have two coloured wires, one wire which is the colour "Yellow", which is the wire that acts as a ignition live and the other wire that is the colour "Red", which acts as a constant live. If you car stereo turns off, when you turn off the car engine, then the yellow wire is not...

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