Damaged keycap - aspire 3690

HI There,

Below is the link to your Service Manual download. The download is done through Rapidshare which has a Pay or Free choice. Sometimes you need patience to get the system to get you the free choice but it's worth the wait.

http://printer1.blogspot.com/2009/01/acer-aspire-3690-service-manual.html

Best Regards,

Marcus

under on bothem are one bank for ram and the other are undr keyboard remove on knikking point plastic above keyboard carfully and release two /tree srews and keybord can be removed replace ram and do revers for montage

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

u should to clean the DVD-ROM & check if ur DVDs or CDS back is clear (there is no crashes on them)

Visit following website where you can find clear shot about removing keyboard from Laptop.
Click Here
thought above link is for toshiba but same procedure implements on acers too.

For complete user guide
Click here to download


Please post back if anything changes and rate all the answers.

hello i found this for you hope it helps just copy and paste it in your address Barr http://www.powerbrixx.com/reference/acer/3610_keyboard.htm hope this helps
bob

Dell don't appear to sell spares down to this level - when a key on mine "broke" recently, they sent me a complete replacement keyboard.

Bearing in mind that the machine was a couple of days out of warranty and that the damage was clearly down to our carelessness rather than theirs, I thought it pretty decent of them to give it to me for free.

You might try salvaging the keyboard off a dead notebook, and either fitting it complete, or salvaging the relevant keys off it.

Changing the keyboard out is quick and easy (You'll find instructions for doing it buried in the "Dell Support Centre" area on your machine).

Fitting salvaged keycaps to an existing keyboard is fiddly: There are two plastic levers which between them form a pantograph underneath the keycap. The keycaps will come off easily enough if you pull them straight out, trying not to lose the two plastic levers which hold them on. From memory, to refit them, you need to click one of the levers into the keycap, then both into the base of the keyboard, then press down hard on the keycap until the last bit clips into place - then repeat several times until you get it right! (The last connection needs to be the fixed, rather than the sliding link to the keycap).

A.

If they both stopped working at the same then it's probably a problem with the motherboard and not the keyboard or mouse per say.

Regardless we've got to try something, right?

I'd start with removing the keyboard and mouse from the device manager, then restart the computer (without the external mouse and keyboard)

If that doesn't work try updating the bios.

If the model you listed above is correct then the latest version for your laptop is located here:

http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/portal20.cfm?recordid=4844&formid=3394&website=AcerPanAm.com&siteid=7117&words=all&keywords=&areaid=2

Let me know what happens.

Best of luck!

get a new keyboard, they are cheap, some buttons are stuck on yours.

fn + F2 it may be in there .... i'm looking over the manual and it's not that user friendly

Robert