How To Remove Scratches From My PSP LCD Screen Using Displex Polish

The PSP console's front faceplate covers the main internal LCD screen of the portable gaming device. This protects the main screen from getting damaged or scratched during use. Using your PSP on a daily basis, will cause the outer screen to become scratched and they will be clearly visible in direct sunlight. Most gamers who are concerned about this issue, will apply a plastic peelable screen protector beforehand onto the outer screen to prevent...

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How To Clean a Car Speaker Box Carpet Thats Used For Covering

Subwoofers are used in car audio to enhance bass response you hear in your music. A subwoofer is placed into an enclosure box, to enhance the bass to the way you want it to sound. Ported boxes are tuned to a specific frequency and are usually used to gain more SPL. Sealed boxes have no tuning, but make bass sound punchy and accurate, which is why it provides far better sound quality over ported. Subwoofer enclosures are usually covered in speaker...

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How To Reset & Remove Nokia 6230i Secuirty Code

The Nokia 6230i has a feature that allows you to enhance phone security, by allowing you to setup up a password code on your mobile phone.  Once activated, it will allow only the authorized user that has the correct security code to have access to the phones content. However, if you have bought a Nokia 6230i with a password already enabled on it or you have accidentally forgotten what it is, you can't access the phones content. But thankfully...

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How To Replace Fiio E11 Portable Headphone Amplifier Battery

The fiio e11 is a brilliant portable headphone amplifier that provides more power to your headphones to drive them to their full potential without reaching high distortion levels. It also has three levels of bass boost you can select to increase the amount of subwoofer bass in your tracks. The fiio e11 operates on a small mobile phone sized battery similar to the Nokia BL-5B battery, which is 800 mAH and provides 3.7 volts. Thankfully to the clever...

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How To Format a PS1 Memory Card With a PS2 Console

If you are using your PS2 console to play PS1 games, you may want to save your progress made in certain games onto a PlayStation memory card. This is so next time when you want to continue playing the same game, you can resume to the progress you made earlier on. To create save data using PS1 games, a PS1 memory card is required. This is because PS1 games have been developed to specifically only work with PS1 1 MB memory cards. A PS2 8 MB memory...

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How To Change Nokia 6300 Front Cover / Housing / Fascia

Overtime, the condition of your Nokia 6300 will become worn out and scratched, due to constant use on a daily basis. This can make the front fascia of the mobile phone look unappealing. You can refurbish your own Nokia 6300 to look brand new once again, by changing the front cover. They come in five different colors silver, black, white, gold or red. When you purchase a replacement front cover, make sure that is genuine OEM made from Nokia. Don't...

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How To Make Gran Turismo 5 Load Faster / Reduce Long & Slow Loading Times

Gran Turismo 5 is currently the best racing simulator out there for the PlayStation 3 platform, i cant wait for Gran Turismo 6! It has incredible detailed graphics and also has cockpit view, so you can real feel that realistic driving experience. It also supports high end steering wheels like the Logitech G25 & G27, which comes with a clutch pedal, shifter paddles and a functional gear shifter, that the Xbox 360 doesn't have. It also has over...

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How To Move & Transfer Xbox Live Profile To a USB Stick

When you create an Xbox Live profile on your Xbox 360 console, it will save all of its contents onto the capacity of the attached hard drive. This is so your profile is saved onto the console, so you can continue to use it, without having to create it again. If you want to use the same gamer profile on a different Xbox 360 console, you can transfer it quite easily, without having to download it. Making this method perfect if your console is not connected...

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How To Delete Xbox Live Profile From a Xbox 360 Console

 Each different user on a Xbox 360 console has their own unique profile that contains their own gamertag, Xbox Live membership, gamerscore, avatar, downloaded content and game save data. The data that is related to the Xbox 360 account is stored onto the attached hard drive on the console. If you are selling your Xbox 360 to somebody or you no longer want your Xbox Live profile on your Xbox 360 console, you can permanently delete it from the...

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How To Power a Computer Fan With a 9V Volt Square Battery

Computer fans require 12 volts from a power source in order to operate inside computers. Computer fans are used in many different ways inside computers, to bring cool air into the case, extract hot air out of the case or blow cool air onto metal heat sinks to cool down hardware. Without a computer fan, hardware inside the computer will generate heat very quickly and will overheat in seconds. This will cause your PC hardware to easily get damaged...

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DIY How To Connect & Power a Computer Fan Using a USB Port

Computer fans are used to cool down hardware that is suffering from overheating issues, to prevent damage occurring and to increase the lifespan of it. The computer fans work the same as desk fans do, as they have blades that spin that create air flow. If you have a spare computer fan lying around the house, you can make into a desk fan with a few simple modifications. Computer fans operate on a 12 volts line, which is usually provided by the motherboard...

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How To Take Off & Remove Xbox 360 Front Faceplate

The front faceplate that is attached to your original Xbox 360 console is removable, but if you have the slim version, you can't remove it. If you own the original Xbox 360 console, its straightforward to remove and no torx screwdrivers or special opening tools are required. You may want to remove the front faceplate on your Xbox 360 console if it is cracked or you might want to replace it with a customized faceplate. So to help you remove the faceplate...

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How To Play Old GameBoy Advance Games On a Nintendo Lite Console

The Nintendo DS lite console supports backwards compatibility with only old GameBoy Advance games, GameBoy Color and Original games however don't work. This means that you can still play them without having a separate GameBoy Advance SP console to play them on, which makes it very convenient for you. There are two game cards slots on the Nintendo DS lite console that are labeled, slot 1 is for DS games, which is found at the top of the console, which...

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How To Install a Memory Expansion Pack Into a Nintendo N64 Console

Nintendo noticed that gamers that used their console to play certain games faced laggy gameplay and had to wait for ages for the games to actually load up. Also game developers needed that extra ram capacity, this is so they could store more graphics data into their games, to make certain games have better graphics. So Nintendo decided to release a N64 expansion pack, which allows you to upgrade the current 4mb system ram to 8mb, doubling up...

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How To Fix a CB Radio That Wont Turn On / Not Getting No Power

A home base power supply is required to convert the standard 240 volts from a wall socket to 12 volts to power any CB radio up. If you are using your CB radio in your car, there is no need for a separate power supply box to convert the voltages because the car battery provides the correct amount of 12 volts. If your CB radio is not getting no power from its power supply, it will not turn on. There can be many different reasons on why your CB radio...

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How To Fix & Replace PSP 1000 Broken Analog Stick / Joystick

If the analog stick on your PSP 1000 console is sticking, it can make it extremely difficult to use it to play games because it won't move freely, as its stuck down. The reason why the joystick is sticking is because the internal mechanism, as well as the rubber contact that the stick operates on has become worn out, due to extensive use. The only way you can fix this problem is by replacing the current broken analog stick with a brand new replacement...

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How To Change Language Settings On a Nokia 6300 Mobile Phone

The Nokia 6300 Symbian operating system (S60) has a language setting, which allows you to change the language of the text displayed to your chosen language. This is very useful of Nokia including this feature because if you have purchased a Nokia 6300 from a different part of the world, you can change the language setting on it, to your particular language and still use the mobile phone. If your Nokia 6300 is currently on a language that you can't...

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How To Reset Samsung E700 Security Privacy Password Code To Default

Samsung has included a special feature on the E700, which allows you to add a security password to prevent other people using the phone to gain access to personal messages and multimedia content, such as music, images and videos. However, if you have added a password code accidentally or you have forgotten what it is, you are basically restricted of accessing certain content on the phone, unless you have the correct privacy password. This can...

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How To Make PSP Games Look Better On A PSP Vita Console

The Sony PSP Vita console is compatible with the first generation of PSP games, which means that you don't have to own a original PSP 1000 console to play them. Since the PSP Vita has no UMD disc drive, you can't play hard copy versions of the original PSP games that are on UMD discs. The only way you can play them is by downloading them directly from PSN and storing them onto the inserted memory card. Thanks to the amazing 5 inch HD OLED screen...

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How To Reset Forgotton Samsung SGH-D600 Secuitry Password

Samsung has included a feature on the D600, which allows the owner of the handset to add a security password to prevent other people using the phone to gain access to personal messages and multimedia content, such as music, videos and images. However, if you have added a password code accidentally or you have forgotten what it is, you are basically locked out of using certain content on the phone. This can be a very problematic situation, but don't...

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How To Unlock a Samsung SGH-D500 Mobile Phone Sim Free / All Networks

So what exactly does a network lock mean?If your Samsung D500 is branded by a mobile network, they will place a sim lock on the mobile phone from the factory to prevent people using other sim cards that are from different network providers. You will also see network branding and logos in the phones menu and on the housing, especially with the 'Orange' branded version. Network providers do this is so it limits you switching to cheaper network providers,...

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How To Fix a Xbox 360 That Doesn't Show On a TV / No Display or No Video Output Problems

The Xbox 360 console contains an integrated graphics video chip that is compatible with both the old style CTR SDTVs and new HDTVs. If you have hooked up your Xbox 360 console to your television and you see no display on your TV, check out the solutions provided below to help you troubleshoot this problem and overcome it.1) Are you using the correct type of cable? There are two specific cables for two different televisions. A cable that uses composite...

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How To Charge a MP3 Player On a Computer With a USB Port / Without Mains Charger

Most mp3 players are designed to be charged via a usb port using a device such as a computer, as well as using the supplied DC adapter. The reason why charging a mp3 player via usb works is because it can provide sufficient charging voltage of 5 volts to the battery, the same amount of volts a DC adapter can provide. If you don't have a DC adapter to use to charge your mp3 player's battery up, you have an alternative method available, which is to...

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How To Connect MP3 Player To PC Computer Speakers For Sound

PC Stereo speakers are connected into the green color jack found on the back of the computer to create sound produced from the sound card. It works by the sound card sending an input signal into the computer speakers. Then the amplifier inside the computer speakers will process the input signal sent from the sound card and will amplify it and will make it more powerful. Finally, the signal will then be sent to the computer speaker drivers, so they...

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How To Fit a New BIOS/CMOS Motherboard Replacement Battery

What is it & How does it work? The motherboard contains a small sized circular shaped CMOS battery that is used for the computer to store the time and date settings, onto an on-board CMOS memory chip. If this battery becomes faulty or dead, every time you start your computer up, the time and date settings will be reset and you will have to correct them. This can cause frustration because you will have to go into the BIOS and manually set them...

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