Not sure either. I have pulled the CMOS battery a few times as well to get a computer to fire up. Mostly laptops. I would say to you though that the desktop I had to keep pulling the CMOS to get it run had another problem. It would not run sometimes and when it did it would show Windows is shutting down after a few hours of use yet I did not ask to shut down. I was getting what you were after that...just the fans going for a few seconds then nothing after the power button was pushed. I would pull the CMOS and then it would fire up again (sometimes). I finally found it was the power button. I went and got a new case with power button. Been running about 2 years no without issue.
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