Help, windows vista doesn't recognize iphone, can't restore

Hello everyone, I'm having a problem syncing my iPhone 3g with iTunes to restore it. I received an iphone 3g 16gb from a friend because he didn't want to try to fix it. He told me it broke after he dropped it. Boots up to the apple logo and just stays there, sometimes spinning, sometimes not.
So I started reading around the net trying to find ways to fix it. I've tried hard resetting (home and wake/sleep same time for 10 secs) and that didn't help. I've tried hooking it up to an itunes with the most recent update and restoring from there. The problem is, my laptop doesn't detect the iphone at all. I have a VAIO with VISTA Business and it is not detecting the phone at all when I plug it in, doesn't show up in device manager or give any indication that the iphone is plugged in other than when I plug it in, the phone boots up to the apple. I've tried plugging in the phone and going into recovery mode from there and I can bring up the screen that shows itunes and the usb cable but nothing shows up in itunes. I've tried getting into DFU mode, but my laptop is still not detecting it.
I'm running out of ideas so I thought I'd post on the web. Has anybody run into this problem before? I've googled it and checked this forum and others and havent found anything. Is my iphone bricked? Anyone with any experience with similar problems, please let me know!

A bit of a long shot but you could try and reset the nvram using a stop+N key sequence. Like I said a bit of a long shot which I do not expect to work as it seems you have tried most things.
I assume that both keyboards work ok on another system and that there are not loose connections between the keyboard, mouse, monitor and the system.
Does the system boot up, pass diags, etc when the ttya is used. It might be worth while stress testing the system with something like SUNVts.
You need to also keep in mind this might genuinely be a connector fault with the motherboard, perhaps caused while taking the system apart or moving it.

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