Trying to factory reset an ancer aspire T180-gb7z AND IT WANTS AN EMPOWERING TECHNOLOGY PASSWORD...NOTHING CAME PROVIDED IN THE BOX SO DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ?

You need to contact ACER support staff via email and ask for that password.

Here's the link:

How to enter BIOS on Acer Aspire 5335 2257 Laptop solutions

yes you restore with the rescue disk

The default empowering password is 000000. That would be five or six zeros, I am fairly certain it is 6. You will need to boot from the original C drive for the factory restore to work. Once you enter the password in the empowering technology, you should find the option for a full factory restore.

Hope this helps

Acer Aspire T180 GB7Z has built-in Ethernet (Wired LAN), But it has no wi-fi capabilities. However, you can add an External USB or PCI Wireless Card to enjoy Wireless Internet.

Hope it helps! Good Luck!
CreativeTECH

switch off the power and take out the c-mos battery from the mother-board. hope you can erase your password in this way.

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If windows boot, or you see something on the startup boot.
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Perform a system recovery:
Does not come with recovery cd's - there is a program that allows you to burn the disks or
recover.
3 ways:

1. If in Windows - Start - Programs - Acer empowering technology - Acer E-recovery management -
click on Restore at bottom then "Restore to factory default settings"
2. Or click on Burn disks instead of restore
3. if unable to ge into Windows then Alt/F10 during boot right after Acer splash screen on startup
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What do you mean, "Reset"? Do you mean like restart it or like reinstall windows with factory defaults?