I'm off topic here, but I want to help.

a) Get it fixed?

b) If you mean a730W, it's a 2003 system on a 2004 device. That was over 7 years ago. Is that what you base your Windows experience on?

You cast an error prone system as the inability of a giant corporation to write code? I see.

Anyway, let us try some logic.

* It was definitely not doing that when they sold it, otherwise it would have been returned and melted for scrap.

* The quality of code doesn't diminish with time. Hardware stability and performance does.

Add those together and it's pretty clear to me you have a hardware problem.

I have a LOOX 720 that comes with the same 2003SE Windows which a friend of mine uses as a navigation with BT GPS.

It has zero crashes when I handle it. When used as a navi, it heats up and, after a few temperature alarms, shuts down. The hardware was never meant to be used extensively for hours in the sun.

Not a software fault. So, bottom line is, get it fixed.

Oh, and, I hear there's a "new" flash image available, from 2005 or so?