Palm T/X dead or dying

I purchased my t/x 13 to 14 months ago I've only used it since the first of August because I purchased a life-drive right after that. This started Weaknesses 01-Oct-08 all day it would not come on with any kind of reset soft or hard. I plugged in the charger yesterday morning and it came on the icons you could from the top to half way down and the reset of the screen was like a light blue and red curtain. I pressed the reset button it went black it stayed like that the rest of the day. I tried recharging again this morning the same as yesterday half the screen was good the rest was not, so I tried a hard reset went black and no matter what I do it stays that way, but in the morning it will probably do what its done for the last two. What could this be or what do I need to purchase as in hardware to fix it?
thank you for any help
steve36
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The digitizer is typically directly on top of the display screen. They are 2 different parts.
Here is a link to pdaparts.com for the screen and digitizer.
http://www.gethightech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc
Sometimes these electronic parts go bad in the devices. It's all part of living in the electronic age.
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When you did the hard reset did you get the erase all data message?
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jc wrote:
It froze up..very rare. Shut down with the power key. Has not booted since.
Sometimes I get a whirring noise. Sometimes I get the grey apple screen. Sometimes I get a tone and three beeps (and the little light flashing at the bottom of the display).
3 beeps should mean all RAM is bad:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1547
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My recollection is the bad memory slot issue only affected the 1.5 and 1.67ghz PowerBooks with 15-inch displays. However, BGreg's suggestion of RAM swapping should reveal if it somehow affected a few 17s.
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David Kerman wrote:
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