I have little luck with my Palms recently. The Tungsten W seems to
be dead (I think that its battery died and will try to find a
replacement). Some time ago I wrote here how I lost all my Palm IIIx
data because I forgot to replace the batteries.
Yesterday the same happened with my TRGpro (a Palm III clone, you
know). But the TRGpro has a CompactFlash slot. And I am making backups
on regular basic.
So I replaced batteries, restored data from backup and adjusted time.
And that was all, Now it is ready to work once more. No desktop was
needed for this procedure.