help! my ipod has died!!!

[imaginary_boy71]

I have a 3rd gen ipod (not click wheel) 20gb, less than a year old, purchased from Apple's refurb zone. I have an ibook and have just bought a G5 powermac. I successfully transferred my itunes lib to the G5 and synched the ipod OK. I then wanted to adjust the volume of all the tunes, so did this in itunes on the G5 and synched with the ipod. About half way through the sync, itunes and the ipod froze. Itunes is OK, but now the ipod won't start up. I've held down play and menu to reboot it, and it gets stuck on the apple logo, whirrs away, they restarts in a loop and eventually switches off.
Any ideas anyone?!?!?!

Chris

[stickuto]

hey and welcome to the forums,

try this,
1.Connect your iPod to the Apple iPod Power Adapter and plug the power adapter into an electrical outlet, or connect your iPod to your Mac's built-in FireWire port

2.Toggle the Hold switch on and off (slide it to Hold and then turn it off again)

3.Press and hold the Play/Pause and Menu buttons until the Apple/iPod logo appears (about 6 to 10 seconds). u may need to repeat this step!

[imaginary_boy71]

yep, tried that- still stuck in the same loop.
this is the 3rd idop in my family die- plus my ibook memory board has crashed a second time- very ####ed off with apple right now!!!

[kornchild2002]

Try restoring your iPod through the iPod updater software. If that does not work then you will have to send it off to Apple for repairs, it is less than a year old so they will fix it.

[imaginary_boy71]

i tried that too- it won't mount at all- doesn't even show that its charging up when plugged in. looks like I'll have to talk to apple AGAIN!!!
bummer
thanks for confirming my feers- just wanted to check the obvious first.
C

[ucbsupafly]

Originally posted by imaginary_boy71
i tried that too- it won't mount at all- doesn't even show that its charging up when plugged in. looks like I'll have to talk to apple AGAIN!!!
bummer
thanks for confirming my feers- just wanted to check the obvious first.
C

Try put it in disk mode then mount and restore.

[bov]

maybe you're just too rough with your stuff

i notice that a lot of people at my school that have iPods and other CD players or mp3 players or even headphones treat them like crap, well what I think is pretty rough.

if you've gone through 3 iPods already, it might just be you.