ERROR 1604 --- Windows XP 64 NOT Vista

Question

i just received my iPod touch 8gb last night, i won it on ebay. brand new, had not been opened. i know that apple, in its infinite wisdom has made iTunes not easily compatible with XP 64, but i read a simple tutorial on how to get Vistas 64-bit iTunes installer to work for me, and it did. got itunes installed, updated up to 7.7, got all my applemobiledevice support drivers installed, got my computer to recognize my iPod as an ipod, and not a digital still camera. got it to sync and copy over all my songs onto it. i went through the settings, got my ipod all set up and everything, but noticed that my apps that i downloaded on my itunes store were not there. so i started downloading the 2.0 firmware update from the iTunes store and went to the bathroom. when i came back, my screen on the ipod was black, and my itunes said "the ipod "ipod" could not be restored. an unknown error occured (1604)" i have looked all over for what to do, and apparently 1604 is a common infuriating error. however all the stuff that i read how to do have someone saying "gee thanxors! that fixed it!" but nothing is working for me.
i do not have, nor have i tried to, a jailbreaked ipod touch.
i reboot my computer and tried the restore again. error 1604.
i uninstalled itunes and the applemobiledevice drivers, and reinstalled. tried the restore. no luck. error 1604.
i have put my ipod into recovery mode before trying this nearly everytime.
each time i try and restore it "Extracts Software" and the starts "Preparing iPod for restore" as soon as the preparing ipod for restore pops up, my screen on my ipod switches from the itunes and dock logo (recovery mode, right?)to a black screen. the preparing bar goes back and forth for a while, and then gives me the 1604 error. also, as soon as the ipod goes to a black screen and itunes is preparing for restore, my ipod gets "disconnected" from my computer, as in, like i unplugged it from the USB, and then i get a notice saying that my computer has located a "USB device" and the install new hardware box pops up. if i just leave it, i get the 1604 error. i have tried installing a driver for it. it was an apple ipod(recovery) usb driver device or something. when i install that driver and do it all over again, i get another error during the prepare to restore, but this time it is error code -1. i havent found many or anyone reporting an error code -1. i uninstalled that driver and tried over and over.
i downloaded an alternate software update to shift+click restore to, "iPod1,12.0_5A347Restore.ipsw" but that still did the exact same thing, 1604.
i tried shiftclick restoring to the actual software update that itunes downloaded for me, considering that i am technically running vista itunes, that it might have been searching for the update in a different folder.
i dont know what else to do. i have had my ipod on and in working use for a total of 10 minutes perhaps before i tried to update. i have run out of pillows to punch, and my family thinks that i might be possessed by a demon by how angry im getting. PLEASE help, and let me know. i am VERY close to reformatting my entire computer and installing XP 32-bit, but theres just so much stuff to copy and reinstall that im hoping theres a better fix for this thing. PLLLEEEAAASSSEEE Help!!

Answer 1

I am having the exact same problem. My 16GB iPod touch has been working fine since I bought it last October (when they first came out).
After putting on the 2.02 OS a couple of weeks back my iPod worked for a day or so and now will no longer boot up. If I'm lucky I get the Apple Logo and thats all. Sometimes I get a white screen and sometimes I get random flickering on the screen too.
I've tried booting into recovery mode (connect cable, load iTunes, press and hold home button on touch while pressing power, then release power, etc.) and performing a restore. I sometimes get the 'connect to iTunes' graphic but after iTunes extracts the software, it produces an "iPod could not be restored" error - sometimes with ID 1605, 1605, -1, 2003, a whole host of different error IDs.
My main computer is running Windows XP SP3 (not 64bit like the OP). However, I've also tried this on my Windows Vista laptop and my Mac mini (running Mac OS 10.5).
All machines are unable to restore the iPod.
I'm working on some web-based dev projects for the iPod and iPhone and I really need this working.
Anyone know how much Apple (UK) charge for a repair of this type?
Is there anything else anyone can suggest?
Thanks,
Rod
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