Repairing power socket for acer aspire 3690

What do you mean repair?

The best you can do is reset all to default. If you got stuck in the middle of updating your bios you will have to contact support for acer....

The rca lead only connects the video, you need to also use an audio cable from the earphone socket to the audio in on the tv.

It sounds to me like your screen has gone and needs to be replaced

Use epoxy glue to fasten the socket to the board. I assume that you have a proper soldering iron (small grounded tip, not a soldering gun), and know how to use it. After the epoxy has cured, trace the damaged tracks back to another solder connection, then solder an insulated (about #24 or #26) wire to that point and to the appropriate connection on the power jack. There should be a maximum of three wires to install. If you make the proper connections, it should work as before. Good luck!

try downloading and using the following manual it has step by step manual

ACER ASPIRE

press and hold Fn and then press up the up arrow key

you have a video card dieying call acer and get thier trouble shooting tools to help locate the problem.

Oh my. The same thing happened to me. (except my screen wasn't fuzzy) Yes, for sure the hard drive broke. So your going to have to completely repair the computer. Its going to take a lot of time and not to mention money.

I hope this helps!

need to take it in for repairs rectifier is going out

The ethernet driver (found several versions, depends which card you have):

http://www.driversdown.com/drivers/Acer-Aspire-3690-Notebook-Broadcom-Giga-LAN-5789-v8.48.0.0-Windows-XP_72404.shtml
http://www.driversdown.com/drivers/Acer-Aspire-3690-Notebook-Broadcom-Giga-LAN-5787-v9.25.0.0-Windows-XP_72405.shtml
http://www.driversdown.com/drivers/Acer-Aspire-3690-Notebook-Broadcom-10-100-LAN-v4.37.0.0-Windows-XP_72406.shtml

The sound driver (RealTek Audio):

http://www.driversdown.com/drivers/Acer-Aspire-3690-Notebook-RealTek-Audio-Driver-v5.10.0.5273-Windows-XP_72388.shtml

Or grab the drivers pack with every driver acer packed together:
http://static.lhp.hu/letoltokozpont.hu/driverek/a/Aspire%203690.zip

Let me know if it worked:)