Not booting up/Need reset SMC/"Service battery" sign.. culprit ?

Trying to figure out if "Service Battery" is the cause of sometimes the comp not booting up (needing to do SMC reset) even though battery metter shows it charged ?

Battery Health and battery charge are different things. You can have a battery with 50% health and 100% charge, but the 100% charge is 50% of the battery's original capacity.
It is very unlikely that the bootup problem has anything to do with the battery.

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