Hello I got a pharos 525 a few weeks ago used. Seemed to work good
until a few weeks ago. The first time everything worked well after a
hard reset but now I am experiencing problems because it loops
restarting until the power supply blows. Now sure if i can disable the
auto power on on power. Last time this happened i has able to get it
to work taking out the battery but this time I am not sure what is
happening. Could it be a virus? Thanks.

At 06 Dec 2007 05:04:46 -0800 joe wrote:
> I am experiencing problems because it loops
> restarting until the power supply blows. Now sure if i can disable the
> auto power on on power. Last time this happened i has able to get it
> to work taking out the battery but this time I am not sure what is
> happening. Could it be a virus? Thanks.


It couldn't be a virus- despite the fact that no PPC-compatible virii are
in the wild, even if you caught the first, the hard reset would've cleared
it.

Are you sure the power supply is working properly? Perhaps the batery is
in a very low state preventing booting. I'd try a different supply and
perhaps a battery if you could temporarily jury-rig a different one (one
can do down-n-dirty, albeit dangerous, testing with a similarly-voltaged
mobile phone battery and aligator-clip jumper leads!)

Thanks Todd, I got 3 power supplies. Looks like this time the problem
is beyond the charger. I ve being looking online for a battery charger
for the battery outside the pda but no luck. If anyone know of any
tricks to charge the GALA160 battery outside the pda please let me
know.

On Dec 6, 11:59 pm, Todd Allcock <eleccon...@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
> At 06 Dec 2007 05:04:46 -0800 joe wrote:
>
> > I am experiencing problems because it loops
> > restarting until the power supply blows. Now sure if i can disable the
> > auto power on on power. Last time this happened i has able to get it
> > to work taking out the battery but this time I am not sure what is
> > happening. Could it be a virus? Thanks.
>
> It couldn't be a virus- despite the fact that no PPC-compatible virii are
> in the wild, even if you caught the first, the hard reset would've cleared
> it.
>
> Are you sure the power supply is working properly? Perhaps the batery is
> in a very low state preventing booting. I'd try a different supply and
> perhaps a battery if you could temporarily jury-rig a different one (one
> can do down-n-dirty, albeit dangerous, testing with a similarly-voltaged
> mobile phone battery and aligator-clip jumper leads!)