if that should help, maybe you can see something before the first time shutdown apears.

The other thing you may want to try is downloading the ~150mb rootfs image here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=63975 Flashing that as the rootfs will let you boot into my BackupMenu program and we can check a couple things.

ok thanks robbie but it is going to have to wait until tomorrow so i can get faster internet, ill start dl now but dont have high hopes 4 tonight.

@lunat yes i would like very much to understand what is going on, I was hoping i had done something stupid with the flashing and then it would be an easy fix, however it seems to be a different problem.

i'm thinking about re-downloading both .bin files, and also pr1.2 version. Each file takes about an hour to download at internet shop, so i think i'll get robbie's image then if no luck the other 2 again

@JonWW thanks for the suggestions, i will try them all out now and see if they do anything, but im not hopeful as it appears to initiate boot process but somewhere along the line changes its mind to shutdown-
couple of the lines of output reads:

dsme 0.6.??? starting up..
dsme wdd: setting wd period to 30s for /dev/????
dsme wdd: seting wd period to 14s for ????
dsme wdd: setting wd period to ??s ?????
dsme 0.6.???? starting up
BOOTSTATE = SHUTDOWN
normal shutdown
state change request DSME_STATE_NOT_SET -> DSME_SHUTDOWN

I'm starting to wonder about your powerbutton, because it's not supposed to start just by putting in the battery with no cables connected

@ shadow, i think this is quite possibly the problem, but can't think how to check

thats for one. but there are weird scenarios this happens.
the otherrthing is:
if op flashed everything, firmware and emmc without issues while flashing and the images are ok: it has to work - otherwise we would see a mass storm of other users with the same problem.

so concluding: either the images are somehow bad(don't fit together, corrupted..), something goes wrong during the flashing or there is a hardware defect,

guess there is not much i can do until i get new images to test. Thanks all for the help and suggestions, i'll post back with results.

@robbie i get "invalid FIASCO header" when i try to flash the image from your link (rootfs-pr1.3-20101101.img)

also i think i am giong to return for warranty repair (if new downloaded images don't work) will your image invalidate warranty? tia

try flasher-3.5 -r rootfs-pr1.3-20101101.img -f -R