Remove the battery inside?

2017 model, not a thing with acer

There is no motherboard lithium Battery inside?

abduct is your guy here

The data isn't stored there from what I've read.

i used the battery removary trick, removed it, unplug psu, turned it off. held power button for about 30sec left battery out for 30mins. place batter back in and try it.

only thing is I cant remember if that was to reset bios settings or remove bios password :shrug; never hurts to try

Motherboards (laptop and desktop) often have a CMOS/BIOS PW reset jumper on the board itself. Sometimes it's physical pins, other times it's just solder points. Either way, there should be a procedure to close that jumper, either with a physical jumper block, or the head of a flathead screwdriver, to close that circuit. The process is going to vary depedning on model, so I can't give specifics. But the jumper is generally marked with something like "CMOS PW".

Solved this in a way that didn't make much sense.

Issue: laptop came with HDD, replaced with SSD, had to set bios password, forgot bios password

Steps.
Install old HDD
Download easybcd and install plop
Reboot, plop install didn't work
Bios password magically changed (different code)
Tried a few and 123 worked.
Changed bios settings so I could boot from usb
Installed new SSD.

Some voodoo magic for sure.
Fuck you Acer lol

so it was "123" the whole time.

it wasn't, bios code changed.
and i tried that cause it was what i always use.