Blank white ipod screen on 5G

Today, my iPod was working just fine until I encountered the dreaded white screen of death. I had firmware 1.2.2 on my 5G iPod. Resetting my iPod does no good because I just get a white screen again. No music plays through either. My computer can +kind of+ detect my iPod. But with iTunes, its more of a hit-or-miss try. I tried restoring it on one of my older comptuers, but it said resources cannot be found. On this newer computer I'm using, it first directed me to a 1.2.1 downgrade for my iPod video, but iTunes once again froze on me, making me miss the installation. I had iTunes detect it a few times again saying its corrupt; but now its trying to make me install a 1.5 update for an iPod with a scroll-wheel. Can anyone help me with this?

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