Blackberry 8100 pearl hard boot meltdown!

I have a blackberry pearl 8100, t-mobile version. I have unlocked it and switched to AT&T.
I did a hardboot to refresh my memory as it was taking numerous minutes to load my applications, apon re-inserting my battery I get no boot sequence.
I get a black screen and my LED indicator slowly flashes RED. I am not around my laptop right now and have no access to my desktop manager.
Any solutions that you know of?
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Have you tried a second reboot?
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