IPod mini random restarts

Hello there, the subject says it all really.
Every so often my mini will just restart; it mainly happens after I’ve left it a few or more hours, and when I return to use it, it restarts, today it even restarted halfway through a track.
It’s so random, it sometimes happen every-time it tries’s to come out of standby, or it may go a week working perfectly
I’ve done a restore [1.4] and that hasn’t helped
So I’m wondering has anyone else had or heard of this problem and if so what did you do?

ok there are to things you can try
first install the latest update
second run a virus scanner on the ipod the ipod should apear as a removable media drive in my computer on windows xp and a ipod icon on mac osx
if that doesn't work
run a disk check utility on the ipod if the disk cheking utility finds any thing wrong with the ipod it will let you know
if all else fails send a extensive letter explaining what happens to apple repair shop and send it in but it sounds like a damaged hard drive to me but without running a disk check utility like scandisk for windows or the disk utility for mac os x i really can't think of anything else
also check you settings you may need to turn of the sleep function in the settings menu but if that doesn't work to a
apple repair shop i would recommend

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