HELP! Videos freezes then iPod resets.

can somebody please help me? my iPod was working fine before but everytime I try to play a video, it randomly freezes at a random time and my iPod just resets by itself. i've tried everything from downgrading the firmware, restoring, using different USB cables, you name it! I have spent approximately 7 hours trying to solve this problem and I am having no lucks whatsoever. If someone has a solution please post some advice before I get a hammer and break this iPod.

Well, My problem was also started by the updater. Then XP would freeze and restart then fail to completely restart until I disconnected the ipod. This would happen ever time I connected the ipod to the computer via firewire or usb 2.0 ports. I finally tried to hook up the ipod to a usb 1.0 port and the computer worked fine. I then quickly used the updater again on my ipod and when I was done I used add/remove programs and removed the updater. Since then computer and ipod both work fine.
So, with out knowing all your specific details... try hooking your ipod up to different usb ports and try the firewire hook up to see if that makes a difference. You can look through these posts and find a lot of people with this problem and I sure what worked for me may not help you.

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I personally haven't experiened this specific thing myself, by I have certainly read issues like your quite a few times on the Discussions.
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