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The other day I plugged my iPod in to charge it. I noticed the lightning bolt charging icon. About 10 min. later when I looked at it, the screen was blank. When I looked at iTunes, I noticed it had not reverted to the screen it usually does whenever I plug the iPod in, nor was my iPod showing up in the left hand column like it usually does when charging. I tried turning the iPod on and nothing happened. I tried restarting the computer. Still nothing happened. The iPod does not show up in My Computer. I've tried resetting by holding Select and Menu at the same time. Several times. Nothing. Even tried giving it a good whack on the desk as suggested in another thread, but still no luck. My current iTunes version is 7.0.2.16. I have tried downloading the last few times an update was available and always get an error message when I triedto run the application, so I've not been able to update to the current version. I am trying one more time as I type this up, but this may be a separate problem for another forum. Anyway... any suggestions on what else I can try? Thinking that I might need to uninstall and try re-installing the whole thing, but would rather try other options first if any exist. Thanks.

So after trying various and sundry things gleaned from scouring topics and websites I have made a tiny bit of progress. Perhaps.... I now can get the apple icon to show up and the sad ipod icon with the exclamation point and then the charging icon, which never shows any further than 1/4 charged. I couldn't get anything at all before, which is why I'm considering this progress. Oh, and I was FINALLY able to update itunes to the most current version. Beyond that, I still can't get my ipod on and usable or get my computer to recognize when its plugged in.

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