How do you disable a zone on the alarm system

Try down powering the smoke detector zone either at the panel or at the devices, then re-applying power. That should "unlatch" the alarm for the zone.

It is telling you that a zone is not working properly or is open. Ex. door not shut, window not shut. Something moving in front of a motion sensor. Fin out what zone 5 is and that is your problem for arming. Could be a battery if this is a wireless system.

Your smoke detectors, heat sensors or fire pull stations (depends on what is installed in your system) are located on your 4 zones. The wiring that connects these sensors to your fire control panel is supervised by an end-of-line resistor. Starting at the panel all wiring on that zone is daisy chained between each detector with the resistor being placed at the last detector. The panel looks for this resistance value at all times. If one of your detectors goes into alarm this creates a short. This is how the system recognizes an alarm state. Conversely, if there is break in the wiring the system fails to see any resistance and the panel will indicate a problem or trouble condition. The most likely cause of your 2 problems is either broken or cut wiring, ie; the system no longer sees the end-of-line resistance. If you are handy and have access to a multimeter you can measure resistance along the zone loop by disconnecting the zone wires from the panel and measuring wire resistance from each detector to the last one. Most Firelite systems use a 4.7k ohm resistor so you should see this at the zone wiring from the panel. If you don't, try removing a detector somewhere in the middle of the circuit and try again. Once you find a detector with that resistance your problem lies between that detector and the panel. It is just a matter of isolating the problem by measuring the zone resistance along different points of the zone wiring. If you are not comfortable doing this by yourself then I would suggest getting either an electrician or fire alarm tech to track down the problem. Hope this helps.

Often two firewalls on the same LAN conflict. Both are trying to do the same job; the conflict may cause an otherwise good Internet connection to drop. If this happens, use the NETGEAR firewall, and disable the other. Two situations are described here, but the general approach applies to any firewall active on a NETGEAR LAN.
The Windows firewall may be turned on without you knowing, for example, if the XP Network Setup Wizard was used.
To Disable Windows' Firewall
See Microsoft knowledgebase article: How to: Enable or Disable Internet Connection Firewall In Windows XP. (Note that you must be logged on as administrator, if you are not, no "Advanced" tab will appear as described.) For hints about using these Windows features, search firewall in Windows help, and select the article Enable or Disable Internet Connection Firewalls.

To Enable the NETGEAR Firewall
Consult your router's User Guide or Reference Manual. Look for sections such as "Using Basic Firewall Services" or "Allowing and blocking keywords, sites, services". Manuals are available for downloading on this site.

To Disable the Norton Firewall

1. Right-click the Norton Internet Security icon on the system tray and select Disable.

To Disable the McAfee Firewall

1. Uninstall McAfee
2. Reinstall McAfee, selecting Custom Installation.
3. Unselect McAfee Firewall.
4. Finish the rest of the McAfee installation as you did before.
   

To Disable Zone Alarm

1. Right-click the Zone Alarm icon in the System Tray, and select Shutdown Zone Alarm.

Also search the Zone Alarm forum for such issues as this product continually logging people off AOL, or Windows XP wrongly reporting that Zone Alarm has been turned off.

yes the system has to be powered by something most times there is a security panel that all the wires run back to, their should be a transformer pluged into the wall somewhere or on the panel itself there should be a red and black wire that is hooked up to power in or 24v in, disconnect these wires or just take the fuse out if it has one. more than likely you will see the power supply. if not take a insulated srew driver and run it across the power contacts on the main board.

See the comments under Petewete. There is no way to disable it on the T301B model. Changing time zones doesn't help because all 7 zones observe DST, or at least they did before 2005. (Now Hawaii Zone 7 does not). I know because I tested all zones. The workaround is complicated: before each time change, pretend it is the old DST date (1st Sunday in April or last Sunday in October) by resetting your date. My spouse says to fix the problem by hitting the snooze button with a 20-pound sledge hammer.

I don't know how this question got classified under Windows Desktop PCs, but it sounds to me like it's about a home burglar alarm system.

The feature you're looking for is typically referred to as "stay" or "bypass." "Stay" is used to automatically disable detection on preconfigured interior zones, such as motion detectors or photobeams so you can walk around inside your home without setting off the alarm. "Bypass" is used to disable detection on any individual zones you desire (except fire detection devices such as smoke detectors, heat detectors, and pull stations).

Every alarm systems works a little differently, but if you could get back to us with make and model, we could provide specific directions.

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It looks like you have a copy of Zone Alarm on your PC and Windows XP Pro SP3 is not liking it. One thing that you can try is to disable Zone Alarm by right clicking on the icon that it creates on the lower right hand corner of the screen and see if you can find a "disable" or "shutdown" option. After doing so, then try to install again. Another thing that you can try is to completely remove Zone Alarm, try to install SP3 again, and if it installs, re-install Zone Alarm. However, I think the easiest path is to disable Zone Alarm temporarily. Let me know if this helps you or not.

-Serge

First disable the zone alarm firewall and then check.

If you still have the same problem, increase the virtual memory, uninstall and reinstall the Web cam drivers.

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