Little Hint for the people with "WinXP doesn't recognise my iPod"

[llew]

Hi guys,

i thought my experience might help some of you.

Got my new 40 Gigger yesterday, fired up Windows XP, hooked up
the iPod to my D-Link Firewire Card, which is perfectly integrated into
my system and works.

(Frustration Level: 0)

No iPod, no new Hardware found, no iPod in MusicMatch, the iPod Manager,
the iPod Updater, no nothing.

(Frustration Level: 5)

Read the forums, found an Article where someone explained howto
reboot the iPod (press the middle to buttons and hold, until it reboots, then
when the apple-logo shows up, press the outter two buttons and hold
until "disk mode" appears - do that while connected to the dock)

OK, did that about 5 times, nothing nothing nothing. (except "ok to
disconnect" appeared on the iPod's display)

(Frustration Level: 8)

Now I thought it would be the right time to go 1 step deeper.

So I restarted my Computer (like about 5 times before) and made
a stop at the bios setup.

Here I recognised the option "Plug and Play OS" which was set to "off".
Set it to "on", reboot the machine, Windows fires up, no iPod.

(Frustration Level: 10*)

Did the above mentioned iPod reboot thing again and - oh wonder oh
wonder - Windows now recognised my iPod and I was able to
format it with iPod Updater 2.1 and fill the lil' biatch with vPod which
is lightning fast

Hope it helps somebody, cheers.

(I don't know anymore if the iPod was in or off the dock when I rebooted it the last time)

[BmxBaby1]

The help you gave was either very useful or coincidental. :) My Ipod is finally working now but I did by a new computer yesterday thats has Win XP and that seems to be helping a lot better with iTunes. Thanks again. Bec

[ashawley]

Do yourself a favor llew, get rid of anything MMJB. Use iTunes.

It will seriously help keep that frustration level down.

Adam

[llew]

Thanks for the tip, Adam. I removed that software on day two :) I am currently syncing with vPod and sorting and adding with ephpod and I am very happy with it. Works great and fast and my frustration level is 10 below ;)

Now I can even run with my iPod because I got my Marware Sportsuit Convertible today.
Had a nice jog today, about 1 hour, changed music titles very often, so the iPod had to load a lot and everything worked wonderful, no skipping or freezing, nice!

[PRK]

Just thought I'd add that this hint worked just as advertised for me after hours of trying getting my computer to recognize the iPod (Gen 3, 20 GB model) -- essentially, rebooting with the iPod in the cradle solved the problem.

[FranktheTankWSU]

I've done the reboot thing a thousand times it doesnt help. still says device not recognized. I've allready updated to 2.1 with the four pin firewire (which works fine by the way), but usb 2.0 cable never gets recognized. this is bull, i know the problem is that there is no USB 2.0 driver on the CD, and i can't find one on the website. If anyone has the combo dock connector (firewire/usb 2.0) and xp, and it works...please tell me how the hell you did it.