IPad will not boot past logo screen.  Any suggestions?

Purchased a used iPad yesterday that was booting up successfully.  Brought it home and connected it to my mac using iTunes 10.4 and selected the option to restore to factory settings and update iPad software to the latest available.
Ever since I have done that, I can't get it past the initial black screen with the Apple logo.  I have to hard boot it to power off and have restored it multiple times but still get nothing.
Any advice is greatly appreciated. 
iPad 1st gen
16GB
3G (no service activated right now)
iOS 4.3.5

That would be my assumption as well on the sim card. I don't know exactly how old the iPad is - but you can enter the serial number on one of these sites and you can find out if it is still under warranty. If so, you at least have that to fall back on. The serial number should be printed on the box and it is printed on the back of the device as well.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do
https://selfsolve.apple.com/GetWarranty.do
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
One other thought - you had activated the iPad and you did use it successfully for a period of time? ....just to be sure ...
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