Palm Tungsten E2 won't shut off or reset

My batteries died, I plugged it into my USB to hotsynch and charge. When sync was complete, the screen was nonresponsive, and started to form grey lines accross the bottom, working their way up until the whole screen was pixilated. No buttons worked.
I left it on the charger figuring the batteries were just WAY dead, then did a soft reset. Unit stays on the grey "Palm Powered" screen, but there is a black bar flashing across the top, roughly 1/16 inch wide. No buttons work. Tried the hard reset, same effect.
Now what?
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Tungsten E2's that won't turn off are often caused by an event that spans the end of year/beginning of year in the Calendar app.
Simple fix, but too late to help you since you've moved on...
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This device has just started to power on again seconds after I turn it off--it remains on indefinitely and runs the battery down! On the Systems > Preferences > Power, it is set to "Auto-off after 2 minutes". What else can I do?
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Try a soft reset by pressing the reset button on the back and see if that may resolve the issue. If it doesn't, you will need to hard reset to put the E2 back to factory settings. this usually corrects any OS corruption. Before the hard reset, you will need to hotsync to backup your data to your PC. After the hotsync and verifying all data is correct in Palm Desktop, hard reset the E2. Before hotsyncing your data back onto the E2 make sure the issue is resolved on the HH and it will power off correctly. Change the hotsync conduits to desktop overwrites handheld and sync.
Click on the following link to the kb.hpwebos.com webpage for the article regarding Reset procedures.
http://kb.hpwebos.com/wps/portal/kb2/common/article/887
For reference purposes, click on the following link for the support page for your device on the kb.hpwebos.com webpage.
http://kb.hpwebos.com/wps/portal/kb/na/tungsten/e2/unlocked/home/page_en.html
There are links on the page to the user guide, troubleshooting, how to's, downloads, etc.

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I have a TUNGSTEN E2 that seems to have a software glitch. When I press the power off button, the unit turns off, but after about 10 seconds, it turns itself back on! Which if I don't have the power cord plugged in will drain my battery quickly. I thought it was a switch problem, so I performed a HotSync with another E2 I own and it too started turning on by itself after 10 seconds. How do I stop this from ocurring?
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As with most problems that occur on a Palm PDA, it is either software or hardware related and we have to determine which one.
Best method is to first make a complete backup of your unit to your SD card using the free "NVBackup" (available from http://www.freewarepalm.com) After the backup is complete, Hard Reset the unit, then test to see if full functionality returns.
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