N900 Boot Cycle Issue

Hello everyone, my name is samantha and I just bought a new Nokia n900, it seemed a really nice phone with a very large potential, however I ran into a booting issue, the phone itself doesn't randomly reboot while I'm using application, as in other cases that I've been reading, but when I normally shut it down, I give it some time, and try to turn it on again, instead of a normal booting like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HorA_H8TKdo
It repeats the cycle some times, for instance the first Nokia screen shows, then the dots, then a black screen, the the first Nokia Screen again, just like If I had just turned it on, and it will repeat a few times, and then eventually it will turn on.
Does anyone knows if this is an issue in the hardware?
Because I already read tutorials and flashed the emmc and the OS to the latest version, and it still doing it with the factory settings, no custom applications, etc.
I just turn it on after a full flash, use it a bit, such as taking pictures, playing chess, and then when I turn it off and try to turn back on, that strande boot cycle happns.

a reflash didn't fix it, so its probably a hardware issue, try raking it to a nokia repair center.
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