Password to restore factory settings for acer aspire 5100

Hello. Call Acer direct and speak to one of their techs. Go to this link for the contact phone numbers

http://us.acer.com/acer/contact_us.do?LanguageISOCtxParam=en&ctx2.c2att1=25&CountryISOCtxParam=US&ctx1g.c2att92=453&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=3529792491

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unplug the computer and take out the battery on the motherboard

You may be able to hold F2 as you power up to open up the "setup" screen. There should be an option to restore to factory defaults on that screen.

Here is the standard Acer Recovery Instructions

1. Power on the machine
2. At the white ACER BIOS screen, hold the “Alt” key and press the “F10” key simultaneously to start Acer eRecovery
3. Once eRecovery has loaded, click “Restore to Factory Default Settings”
4. Click “OK” to continue
5. From here, the eRecovery process will update all the data on the C: drive and restore a fully functional factory image (approximately 10 minutes).
6. Once eRecovery has run, press “OK” to reboot unit
From techsupportforum.com

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If your son used the edata security and used both passwords. you can either ask him for password or change the boot secuence to boot to restore disk and restore back to default..which defaults to NO PASSWORD set.

short the battery hold a piece of wire on to the positive and the other on the negative for about 10 seconds this should short the battery it does no damage to any thing else.

Have a read here.
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/portal20.cfm?recordid=1156&formid=3390&website=AcerPanAm.com/us&siteid=7293&words=all&keywords=&areaid=7
Reading the article it looks like a standard recovery method for all Acer machines, desktop or laptop.

Try this one sir:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=How+to+remove+password+on+Acer++Aspire+5100+PC+Notebook

From Acer customer support:

1 Ensure all Data is backed up, all data will be deleted.
2 Restart machine
3 When your unit switches back on hold down alt & tap f10 repeatedly...(on Acer icon)
4 Please wait a moment until prompted, -How would you like to restore?-
5 Please select –Restore system to factory default-
6 Enter your defined password or enter six zeros ‘000000’
7 Click ok
8 Please wait until process completed, this will take 45min – 1hour