IPod Classic isn't recognized causes computer to restart

I recently purchased an iPod classic after having another iPod for about 3 years. My new iPod worked perfectly until a few days ago, when I was listening to it and it froze. I turned it off and on again, but I kept getting the Apple logo and it froze there too. I plugged in it to my computer, and I tried to restore the iPod to the factory settings. After many attempts, it finally worked, and now everytime I try to plug the iPod in to sync it I get a blue screen on my computer (windows) and it restarts itself. Also when this happens, the words on my iPod are random letters (for example, where it should say "Playlists" it says "ehfhtk" and so on). Please help me if you can, I don't know what I can do about this. Thanks.

Two help pages for you
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2280
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1502

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