Accompli software OS crash

Hi all

The motorola a6188 pda phone I got recently(second hand)
has mysteriously died on me.
I was synchronizing with Starfish Truesync in win98 with infra-red,
and the phone screen suddenly developed horizontal black lines accross its
face
and kinda froze.I switched off to reset it,and that was the end of the
phone.
What can I do to get it up and running again.
I thought maybe like a pc into BIOS , just hold down a button while starting
up,to reset it.

Previously doing a sync froze the phone(or rather part of it,the buttons)
A restart sorted that out.

Also no matter what I do I cant get the serial data cable connection to work
now
I disabled the firewall,and antivirus,and anything else that could be using
the com port.


Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated

Thanx/Pete