If you can't isolate the problem using standard trouble-shooting and cache management, and a program like Resco Lock doesn't seem to help (locking VolumeCare helped me for a while), it may be time for a complete purge. My 2.5-year-old Treo 650 was getting flakier and flakier, despite all of the above, and finally went into a reset loop that could not be cured even by a warm reset.
I did the hard reset, rebuilt from scratch, and the Treo has been pretty happy ever since. I never did find the problem, but I think that the installation and de-installation of apps, moving things around, etc. was leaving stubs of stuff that eventually gunked up the Palm's OS. (How's that for a technical explanation?) I use PowerRun, which does a lot of loading and unloading, so I am particularly suspicious of that. Before you resync your Palm after a hard reset, remember to move the contents of your Backup folder someplace else, or you risk simply recreating the problematic conditions. You don't want a "recovery sync" in this case, as attractive as it may sound. --- In [email protected], Peter meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Friends, > > For the past few weeks, I have been having the oddest crashes. None are > a problem, thanks to good utilities, but something is just wrong. Do any > of you have any ideas what might be doing this? > > Specifically, if I sync my 700p to the computer (Thinkpad) on XP Pro, > and then do almost anything else that requires much memory, Reset Doctor > flushes the cache. Sometimes, the system catches on VolumeCare and dumps > to reset. Only after a sync, not any other time. > > I have locked all the usual suspects, and have adjusted my cache flush > level to 8M. I run DateBk6 and Snapper most of the time. For utilities, > I have RLock, Butler, CityID, Initiate, Powerhero, and of course > VolumeCare all running. I use Show Off periodically, but that does not > seem to correspond to cache flushes or resets. > > Anyone got any suggestions as to what might be doing this for me, or > what diagnostics to try that I have forgotten? > > Thank you greatly! > > Peter > > "The future is not something we enter. The future is something we > create." -- Leonard I. Sweet >
