Ive had my N800 from buy.com since mid November. I had no power on issues until the beginning of January. Once or twice I was able to reboot by removing the battery. The most recent time nothing seemed to work, long press the button... again after 3 minutes, removed the battery, again for 2 hrs for the drm (even put it in the fridge for this step), and then plugged it in waiting 12 hours for the charge icon. All with no luck.

The one thing my unit did that seems different from the power on enigma, is my screen wasn't blank. I would get the White Nokia screen like on normal startup, but no progress bar not even after hours. My question is, when people describe the power enigma the say the screen is blank. Is this the same enigma?

For what it's worth, the way I finally got it to boot was to re-flash. The wiki mentioned the flashing didn't fix the problem, but at least it let me boot up. I'll try the softboot method to avoid issues in the future.

It seems the power problem is practially solved, but I had my hunch that it had to do with some program I had installed, maybe VNC or weather.