Another messed up iPod...

ok ive read the forums and believe me i dont want to flood it with another one of these posts but ive honestly done everything i can to try to fix my ipod so here goes. I recently bought a brand new computer and upon hooking my ipod to it the thing stopped respoding and ultimitly just gave me to folder and ! icon. Holding all the button combinations (reseting, disk mode etc) does nothing but bring up the folder to. the apple updated says that the ipod needs to be updated but when it tries after about 10 sec or so says firmware error. I have also tried manuely formatting the device through the windows reformater using FAT32 and everything else it requires. This either yields an error of unable to reformat or it will reformat it. then trying to update through the apple updater still gives me the firmware error and will somtimes make the ipod undetectable to my PC. I am unable to figure out why random things like this occure as i just trudge on and do the same things over and over changing nothing. The ipod appears to work with the charger as it has full battery life but other then that im left with an expensive paper weight. Any help on this matter would be appreciated and please let me know if ive left out any information that would be useful.

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