Help DroidX wont boot

[tree9]

Hi, I need a little assistance please!
I have a droidX running 2.3 gingerbread ( stock, not rooted).

I don't know what happened but I can't get past the initial Motorola icon when starting the phone, it gets stuck there.

I tried the following:

• pulled battery and SD card many times

• try to access menu for a reset via instructions i found:

hold home,hold power, release power when Motorola icon appears, however it never brings me to the android and exclamation point.

• hold all buttons + press power i get:

Bootloader
30.04

Battery OK
OK to Program
Connect USB
Data Cable

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Little history:
issue started while i was away for a few days, when i got home i simply plugged it into my usb/windows7 and it booted up by itself and has been working fine again for a few days now.

now all the sudden its back to the same thing.
Both times all was working normal, then my 4 hardware buttons stopped responding, the screen still functioned fine. when i rebooted the phone, it went into this state. This is now the second time, and again it started with loss of the 4 hardware buttons before i rebooted it.

I don't know anything about ROMs or rooting, am i at a point where i need to reinstall the OS?
Plugging it onto my computer makes no difference this time around.

Any info would help
thanks!

(this is the original droidX, not the droidX2)

 

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