TP constantly rebooting itself regardless of ROM

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Hi All,

First of all I want to thank everyone who does awesome work here. I've used a number of the ROMs for over a year now and really appreciate all the work done. (started a new post because this seems diff, then other reboot issues)

My phone started rebooting itself the other day, but not just rebooting; hard flashing itself. So when it boots it says it's booting up like it's the first time. Not only that it often hangs on the boot screen and doesn't get to the today screen.

I've flashed five ROMs (which has been hard because sometimes I can't even sync it) and tried three different versions of NRG; as well as ROOTrom Tank and even went and loaded some old ROMs like lunacie and MightyMike.

it will sometimes work for a half a day or so, but if i PIM backup it's usual dead quick (also dead two times avoiding PIM incase that was the cause)

so long post, but I'm afraid to ask...is my phone a goner? Is this a possible virus on my external disk? any ideas at all?