Help. My IPOD Nano has frozen to death!

I took it out of my bag, it was OK when it went in!
The display is lit up, a song is "paused", the battery indicator is on its last red bars, but nothing is happening.
IPOD updater isn't recognising it, ITUNES isn't recognising it. I can't turn it off, none of the menu buttons are responding.
Anyone have any clue what's going on here? or how to fix it?

Reset the iPod by holding down the Menu and Select (Centre) buttons at the same time until the Apple Logo appears on the screen.
Make sure you don't have the Hold switch operated or the buttons will not work.
Ian

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