1st gen 4GB nano won't power up with USB

My new-to-me old Nano doesn't work on battery power, even after new battery installed, but powers up and plays when docked onto speaker. No big deal, and merely mentioned as a possibly related symptom...main issue is that it won't power up using USB cable to PC. My other nano works fine with the same cable. The bad one gives an Apple logo, then backlighting flashes on for a mere fraction of a second and then it shuts down. Then about three seconds later it all repeats again. There's only 25 songs on this 4GB model. I could care less about this problem if only my music was already loaded onto it. It cost me $15 on ebay and $5 for a battery, so $20 into a useless unit bites. $30 could have gotten me a good working one...hopefully this can be revived for cheap?

Well, I tried to other things... I turned off the backlighting to see if less current draw would help. It didn't. Also, the backlighting option gets deleted off the main screen menu after it dies/reboots.
I also tried connecting to PC with the ipod screen ribbon cable disconnected just for kicks...still a no-go.
I just want to load it up with songs...sigh.

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