Ipod causes windows to reboot

whenever i try to sync my new ipod 80g my computer reboots help!!

hey! mine has been doing that too!
pretty freaky hey!
can not believe how aweful this iPod experience is being,
I really did not believe all the negative hype about it, now i am experiencing it, it is terrible!

Similar Messages

  • Ipod causing PC to reboot

    I have been having trouble with my 20G ipod causing my PC to restart. First noted something funny when I would start to play a song on the iPod and then the song would immediately cut out and the ipod would turn off. This has happened repeatedly despite battery not being drained. I have also noted that when I plugged my ipod into the USB on my PC that it caused the computer to reboot and caused a "serious error". Since first problems developed I have updated to iTunes 5.0 (although this too was difficult but eventually successful when I turned off antivirus software and removed old versions of iTunes). I have verified that the iPod firmware is up to date. Any ideas as to a cause for this and a fix? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Of note is that I have used the iPod on my 2 different computers at times .... can this cause a problem?

    I have the same problem, when I connect my iPod to my pc it reboots (actually crashes). After the pc is rebooted the iPod can sync with iTunses. I can repair the problem temporarely but it keeps coming back:
    - solution 1: run chkdsk on the iPod hard drive letter from windows explorer, it finds and corrects an error and the problem dissappears for some days
    - solution 2: run the iPod Updater (2005-06-26), this completely formats the iPod harddrive I think, since afterwards it has to put al my music back on it, the problem dissappears for several weeks with this
    I'm getting nuts about this problem, I don't think it is good for my pc to crash every time I connect my iPod. Didn't find any help on the support section of the apple site.

  • Ipod causes windows explorer to restart

    everytime i plug in my ipod through USB and use windows explorer eg my computer/ my documents it causes windows explorer to restart everytime i open it. does any one else have this problem solved. thank you

    The same thing happens to me when I plug in my Iphone 3G. I am running Windows 7

  • Ipod causes Windows Vista to stutter

    Hi,
    I have recently upgraded to Vista and when i plug my ipod in, it causes my system to slow to a crawl and stutter, mouse moves really slowly, things take ages to action. I had this problem when i installed my USB hard drive, but that seemed to cure itself after a day or so.
    Please can somebody help me, i have am desperate to update the songs / vid on my Ipod.
    Many thanks
    Ben

    The same thing happens to me when I plug in my Iphone 3G. I am running Windows 7

  • Ipod causes windows XP to crash upon connecting to craddle

    I have an ipod that crashes xp every time I connect it to the PC. I have reset the ipod, and have re-installed win xp. I never had this before I updated to new apple itunes. What is going on?

    I've noticed that you've asked that question a lot.
    that's not surprising, Novy. blue screens are one of my "advice fields." (by no means the most common problem i work on, though. you can check whether or not i'm telling the truth about that by simply clicking on my alias and looking through a random sample of about 100 of the different threads you find me involved in. truth is important.)
    i ask about the numerical and text codes of BSODs because there are literally dozens of different blue screen messages that you can get on a Windows PC. see:
    Troubleshooting Windows Stop Messages
    ... and by cross-referencing the error codes with other information (like the circumstances of the BSOD, event log records on the PC in question, and any information showing up in the Device Manager on the PC), we can get a heads-up on a possible cause.
    for example (not suggesting that this is your problem, it's just an example of the cross-referencing in action), one of the first thing i check for if people are reporting an 0x00000050 PAGEFAULT_IN_NONPAGEDAREA when they either launch itunes, import a CD in itunes, or (of all things) plug in an ipod, is this particular problem:
    Easy CD Creator 5.0 Does Not Function In Windows XP
    because truth is important, here's a search on the 0x00000050 code delimited by my alias:
    b noir: 0x00000050
    back to your startup blue screen:
    The only error messages that I get is the one that asks you if you want to start up in safe mode or start up normally because the system unexpectedly shut down because of a power/software/hardware issue.
    could you give us the precise text of that error message? (a search of the KB docs at MS on segments of the precise text can often pull up some information on an error message like that.)
    love, b

  • IPod Causes Computer to Reboot

    This happens on occasion, but it's starting to get to me...
    My computer will sometimes reboot when I plug in my iPod...
    I would like to point out a few things about my configuration. To make my computer faster, I disabled a lot of services in Windows XP using services.msc... I have assumed that most of these services are either safe to set on disabled/manual...
    I don't know if this is related to the iPod rebooting issue... However, I've enabled the iPod service and removable storage... is there any other service the iPod depends on? or is this completely unrelated?

    Since you have completely messed with your computer, you may want to wait for a verry experienced Discussions Member to help you, someone with over 3 bars...
    Try being specific on what you have executed on services.msc, your iPod firmware version, and your iTunes firmware version (iPod should be at 1.1.1 for 5G iPod and 6.0.4 for iTunes).
    I nominate bnoir, btabz or Masna to answer this a little better after you repost with specific information
    rjl

  • Syncing to 30GB Video Ipod causes windows to physical dump

    That's pretty much my problem. On my laptop(windows XP), I start to sync or even if I manually drag multiple songs onto my Ipod it starts doing it. Then about 5 or 10 songs in I get the dreaded blue Physical dump of memory screen. I've tried restoring my Ipod and that didn't work.
    So I tried getting songs from my desktop computer(Windows XP also) and the same exact thing happens. It's so frustrating. I'm wondering if it's a problem with the Ipod itself or iTunes or Windows. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.
    Thanks

    See if this troubleshooting page helps: iTunes displays a -69 error when syncing iPod

  • IPod causes windows to freeze...NTSF format problem?

    Hi. I formatted my ipod classic as NTSFso i could fit a large file on there. So i done that, but straight after i re-connected the ipod it hasn't been working. Windows will eventually recognize the ipod as a removable disk, but when i try to right click on it, windows freezes...so i can't get into the option to reformat it. And Itunes won't recognize the ipod at all.
    thanks.

    bump

  • IPod touch 4G causes windows 7 to blue screen when connecting to iTunes

    Wife bought me a new iPod Touch 4G for Christmas. A few days ago it started to cause my Windows 7 (64bit) to blue screen randomly while connected or sometimes when I first connected it.  Did a Windows re-install and crashes Windows each time I connect it. It is not the USB port as other devices work fine through all my USB ports. I do load various apps on the iPod several times a day. And it is also bluetooth'd to my wireless wifi switch (same network as my PC). ITunes program on PC is latest version. Anyone have a clue on this one?

    Try here:
    iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Windows displays a blue screen message or restarts when connecting your device

  • Large project in Premiere CS3 causes Windows XP64 to reboot

    Ok...I have a rather sizeable project going in Premiere CS3.  It contains a rather large number of animations created in Autodesk Maya (most between 10 seconds and 3 minutes long) and a large number of stills, as well as scrolling background (a .mov file I created using Photoshop and Premiere) and a soundtrack created by myself (in Cakewalk/Sonar).  The total project is about 18 1/2 minutes in length....around 8 video tracks and 3 audio tracks at the moment. The main problem is that when I start working on it...either importing files and especially moving files around in the project or even just hitting the playback button, the system just reboots.  I have seen the infamous Windows "blue screen of death" flash briefly once or twice, but it doesn't hang...just goes right to the system BIOS screen.  The ONLY thing that seems to help is basically saving the project like every 30 seconds.  Import a file, save, conform file to widescreen, save, bring file into project, save, move file around a bit, save, add crossfade, save....you get the idea.
    Now before I go too much futher here, I suspect the problem isn't actually with Adobe/Premiere as I had this happen a few times while I was creating the sound track in Sonar 4 as well.  The sound track is basically a pseudo-orchastral piece and is equally around 18 1/2 minutes long....currently with around 42 tracks of audio and 5 midi tracks.  The audio has been sampled down to a standard stereo wav file for the import into Premiere. And yes, as the audio portion of this project got bigger and bigger, it caused a few reboots as well (not to mention drop-outs, studders and all the other fun stuff associated with audio production).  With that, I was able to "compact" the Sonar file (basically a Sonar project defrag) and the reboot problem seems to have went away on that end.
    The system itself SHOULD be able to handle this project...not top of the line, but pretty beefy. 2nd generation Intel i5 quad core, 16 gigs of Kingston DR-1600 RAM, Tascam US-428 for the audio and a good 2+ terabytes across 5 harddrives (3 internal 3 gig-per-second SATA's, 2 USB).  Also has a 4 gig HIS vid card with ATI chipset (still can't afford a FirePro yet).  While Premiere is installed on the (comparatively dinky) 160 gig C drive, I'm using the 500 gig E drive internal and a 500 gig USB drive as my work drives.  Most of the Maya animations are on the internal E drive but the rest...the stills and Premiere files and such...are on the USB drive.  I.e., the system itself should have plenty of rendering power for this.  Also I have replaced the C drive with a nearly identical twin.  After a recent crash, I finally broke down and got a backup C drive...in other words, I'm sure the drive(s) are a-ok...even put a brand new 500 watt power supply in just in case.
    I have already re-installed XP64...a couple of times in fact, as just before I started this project one of those god-foresaken MS "critical updates" crashed the crap out of my computer.  Then on the first reinstall, something hosed in .NET framework during the "night of a thousand updates" so I had to scrap it and start the reinstall all over again.  Likewise, I reinstalled Premiere CS3 (along with everything else including Maya) once I finally had the computer running again.
    A quick note here: I did create my own custom 1080 Hi Def widescreen settings for Premiere since CS3 didn't appear to have any such thing.  For short projects they seem to work just fine...although admitedly, the render time is a serious b*tch.  Likewise, all the Maya animations have been rendered out at 1080 widescreen, production quality (yea...the render time there was a killer too).
    Another quick note:  While I'm trying to use Premiere exclusively while I'm working, on occasion I have had to open either Photoshop or Maya to deal with a couple of stills...and when I open something else, I get a "windows virtual memory to low" (16 gigs of RAM and the virtual memory is too low??).  Otherwise, except for Avira (virus scanner) I don't really have anything else running in memory...no screen savers, no desktop pictures, no Instant Messanger crap, etc..  Never cared for bells and whistles and such, so the system is pretty clean in that regard (and I do keep up on my degrags as well).
    Finally, while I -am- grateful for any helpful suggestions regarding this, please do NOT simply tell me to upgrade something (Premiere, Windows, etc) as point blank; it ain't gonna happen.  Aside from the fact that Adobe seems to have made Premiere CS4 and up much more difficult to use (I have -many- niggles about the newer interfaces there...using CS5.5 at the college and it's REALLY annoying) and aside from my wife being a MS programmer/developer and having to listen to her complain about Windows 7 and 8, we're in the process of buying a new house, so any and all "disposable income" is nill...and will be for quite some time.  No money...zero...nadda...i.e. no upgrades.  Further, while granted this is certainly the biggest project I've done to date, I've ran this setup/configuration for at least the past 3 years now without a hitch...this all seems to have started with that last MS critical update (at the risk of sounding paranoid, I'm really starting to think they slid a nasty in that last one to FORCE people to upgrade since they're discontinuing XP64 support soon). 
    Alrighty...I know that's a lot but I wanted to provide as many details as I could here in hopes that someone can help me get a handle on this reboot issue.  Getting to be REALLY annoying having to save every 30 seconds or so.  I have searched the help files, but got tired of randomly sorting thru all the blather and not finding anything helpful.
    I'm grateful for any help here...thanks!
    Jim

    Well, I'm about 98% sure it isn't a hardware problem.  I had already pulled the RAM and tried some backup RAM I have sitting in the box (8 gigs of Corsair), went thru the harddrives weeks ago with Chkdsk and everything was a-ok there (a couple of bad clusters on the old C drive, but that has since been replaced and is on the shelf as a backup), motherboard seems to be fine, re-seated all cards and cables, etc..  Again I even slapped a new 500 watt PS in just in case (the old one was a 400 watt and with all the crap I have on this system, thought it might have been a voltage drop off issue...nadda).   I did have a bit of a heat problem a while back...one of the case cooling fans was going bad and the CPU was getting just hot enough to trip the system (about 5 degrees over).  That said, that also shows up in the BIOS monitor as well and was easy enough to track down.  Either way, the bad cooling fan has been replaced and I even added a "squirrel cage" style fan as well...system is running nice and cool now.
    BTW...I used to be A+ certified on both PC's and Macs when I was a hardware tech (not to mention HP, IBM and Lexmark certified, Cat 5 installer, etc), so I like to think I know my hardware fairly well.  Not just a weekend warrior on that front...used to do it for a living.
    I had also already tried manually resizing the paging file as well...tried different sizes, tried spreading it out across the drives, etc..  Didn't really make a difference either way and again the only time the virtual memory low comes up is if I try to open Photoshop or Maya while this big project is open in Premiere.  That said, Photoshop and Maya both tend to be pigs when it comes to memory/RAM (Photoshop especially).  Doesn't seem to happen with Illustrator or any other program....just PS and Maya if this project is open in Premiere.  
    One other oddity I have noticed recently is actually with Maya.  Before all of this started...in other words, before that last MS critical update and 3 days of reinstalling software...I used to be able to do a background render with Maya and still be able to keep working on stuff.  I'd fire off batch render and then I could move on to other things...editing images in Photoshop (CS 5 there if it matters), surfing the web and even doing some light stuff in Premiere.  Since this problem has been occuring however, I have noticed that the Maya batch renders are REALLY slowing down the system big time.  Difficult to even check my email while a batch is running.  Likewise, I have noticed that since I upgraded the Maya from 2011 to 2013, Maya has a nasty tendency to freeze during a batch render.  If I have a long batch render, I'll set it up to run over night...when I get up the next moring, the render itself will still be running (you can see Mayabatch.exe still going in processes under Task Manager) but Maya is totally frozen up.  Now I did that update at the same time as the rest of this mess happened so I don't know if these problems are due to the Maya upgrade or the (apparent) Windows problem...I'm inclined to believe the latter.
    BTW...after having a project file get corrupted yesterday during one of these shut downs, I've been double saving the files (so as to have a backup) and that too seems to have made things a bit better.  Hasn't actually shut down on me when I've been doing this.  That said, it's also a serious pain in the butt having to save that way too.
    With that, looking thru the rest of Hunt's article there, I did kill indexing services...at least on the work drives.  it's about the only thing there that I haven't tried, so we'll see what happens this afternoon.  I seriously doubt that would be the problem though as usually that would give an error or a lockup and not an instant shut down, but we'll see.

  • Video Drivers in Windows 7 64 bit cause Windows to crash after reboot

    I have a Mac Mini mid 2011, I installed Windows 7 64 bit through Bootcamp. After the install I install the Mac drivers. I have narrowed it down to the video card drivers are causing Windows to crash on reboot. Are there other drivers I can use? Am I doing something wrong?
    Thank you in advance for any help or advice.

    I have an imac
    I have an magic pad (same thing as the touch pad on a macbook really)
    I have an usb mouse I use both in windows and osx
    if your trackpad somehow was registered as actived for some reason it would seem as if it was the mouse
    had some *** situations both in windows and osx when my cat sit on the magicpad

  • 60GB iPod making windows to CRASH

    Hi all, could someone please help me? I have a 60GB iPod video, and everything was fine until recently i found a problem where whenever i connect my iPod to my PC (winXP), windows will reboot and if i live it connected on reboot, winXP will reboot again.
    I tried it on my brother's PC and it worked fine...
    thanks
    I have a : win XP, P4 3.2ghz, a 256MB video card, 1.50BG ram, etc.etc.

    hmmmm. a lot of different things can cause an 0x0A like that. it's a fairly generic message.
    let's check on malware. download fresh definitions and run vigorous virus and spyware scans. if your security software providers offer them, try running online scans too. they can sometimes pick up an infection even if the security software on the PC has been compromised.
    check through your Device Manager to see if there's any error/warning messages showing up there. to see Device Manager, right-click "My Computer", select "Manage", and click "Device Manager".
    try working through the Windows troubleshooting guide on 0x0A:
    Troubleshooting a Stop 0x0000000A error in Windows XP
    and we can also try enlisting some additional technical help.
    let's also capture a minidump of the crash and send it to someone who can interpret minidumps.
    To set up your machine to capture a minidump, right click on "My Computer", select "Properties", select the "Advanced" tab, select the "Startup and Recovery" Settings button, select "small memory dump" from the popup. When it crashes, look for the MiniDump file. It's usually in the folder "C:\WINDOWS\Minidump" and is called something like Mini<number>-<number>.dmp.
    collect the minidump, and send it to this email address
    in the email, include the URL to this thread so that the person who gets the email has some context, but also give as much information about the context of the crashing as you can.

  • IPod nano 3 gen rebooting

    I have just recently installed the newest update for my iPod. I am now having problems if I select a different song from the one that is playing. It goes directly to the apple icon and then reboots it self. I also downloaded a new game. So I don't know what is causing it to reboot. Could someone please tell me what to do I am leaving tomorrow. I want to resolve this problem today.
    Thanks
    One other thing it has also did it when I tried playing the game Mahjong that I downloaded on to my iPod after updating to 1.1.2.

    Try placing the iPod in Disk Mode and connecting it to your PC.  This should keep the iPod from rebooting and mount the iPod as an external volume on your Windows PC viewable from My Computer or Computer.  If you can successfully place the iPod into Disk Mode and have it recognized by iTunes, restore it to factory settings.
    Putting iPod devices with a Click Wheel into Disk Mode
    If necessary, verify that your iPod has a Click Wheel.
    Before placing the iPod into Disk Mode, verify that it is charged.
    Toggle the Hold switch on and off (set it to Hold, then turn it off again.)
    Press and hold the Menu and Select buttons for at least six seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
    When the Apple logo appears, release the Menu and Select buttons and immediately press and hold the Select and the Play/Pause buttons until the Disk Mode screen appears.
    Connect the iPod to your computer; the screen on the iPod will should say "Do not disconnect".
    If you are having difficulty putting your iPod into Disk Mode, set it on a flat surface. Make sure that the finger pressing the Select button is not touching the Click Wheel. Also make sure that you are pressing the Play/Pause button toward the outside of the Click Wheel and not near the center. If you are still unable to put your iPod into Disk Mode, use one finger from one hand to press the Select button, and one finger from the other hand to press the Play/Pause button.
    It wouldn't hurt to also try a different USB sync cable to rule out a faulty/damaged cable. Plug the iPod into a high powered USB 2.0 port as well.  The iPod may not be receiving enough output from the iPod to stay connected.  This means you should unplug all other USB devices as well minus your keyboard and mouse if it's a desktop.
    B-rock

  • Can I remove iPod for Windows 2006-03-23 and 2006-06-28?

    I have the latest update of iTunes installed on my PC. I'm trying to remove uneeded programs from my c drive. Is it safe to remove iPod for Windows 2006-03-23 and iPod for Windows 2006-06-28? If I removed them will it adversely affect the restoring of the iPod to factory settings or cause other problems?

    The iPod updater is now integrated with iTunes so that you no longer need the standalone updaters each of which only delivered a particular version of the software. You can safely delete them, you'll find a few of the later ones are still available for download should you feel you need one. If you need to restore your iPod this can be done through iTunes: Restoring iPod to Factory Settings with iTunes 7

  • IPod Shuffle Windows or Mac formatted?

    I just got an iPod shuffle (2nd generation). It wont appear in ITunes. It's not any of the obvious errors listed and the 5 steps doesn't help. I've reset it several times. When I went to run the iPod updater it claims it is a Windows formatted iPod Shuffle and that the updater is for Mac only. The packaging doesn't have any description of it being a Windows only iPod! Can it be reformatted as a Mac iPod? If I don't have iTunes open the Shuffle will load as a disk drive in the finder but not as an iPod. Can anyone help me get my Shuffle to work? Cheers.

    iPod formatted on a PC can be read by a Mac computer but not the other way round.
    So your iPod of course can be restored or formated on a Mac computer.
    I am not too sure, it can be a bad contact between the cable plug with your iPod causing the problem. Otherwise, see doing the following helps
    For Mac computer
    1. Open the disk utility, hope your iPod appears there (left hand side), highlight it
    2. Go to Tab “Partition”, click either “Delete” or “Partition”, if fails, skip this step and go to 3
    3. Go to Tab “Erase” , choose Volume Format as “MAC OS Extended (Journaled), and click Erase, again if fails, skip it and go to 4
    4. Same as step 3, but open the “Security Options....” and choose “Zero Out Data” before click Erase. It will take 1 to 2 hours to complete.
    5. Eject your iPod and do a Reset
    6. Open the iTunes 7 and click “Restore”

Maybe you are looking for