Computer won't recognize new Ipod, Ipod won't setup

I just received a brand new Ipod 3rd gen, hooked it up to the computer, the apple icon showed up, then after a minute, the welcome screen with the language choice flashed, disappeared and back to the apple icon, and it just keeps doing that, occasionally going blank. No recognition from my computer that it's hooked up, nothing. Any ideas?
Thanks!

Hello susands,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
With the iPod still connected to your PC, try resetting it. To do this, press and hold both the Select (Center) and Menu buttons together until the Apple logo appears. If no luck the first time, feel free to try this a couple more times as necessary.
Otherwise, it might help to manually place the iPod into *Disk Mode* using these instructions. If you can successfully do that, you may need to restore the iPod via iTunes.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1363
Other suggestions would be to let the battery completely drain. Then hook it up to your computer and let it charge up enough to fully boot and then restore it via iTunes.
Does it do this if you connect it to another computer?
B-rock

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