Ipod not recognized, frozen, the 5 R's don't work

I actualized some playlist with ephpod and then the ipod ended jammed, i reseted it and the it got caught in a loop of screen only sowing th eapple icon. It won't be recognized by none of the pcs i've tried it and well i don't know if i have to send it to repair.
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Ok, the iPod works fine playing music and watching videos and everything else it is supposed to, and it charges fine. But when i plug it up my PC to sync new music, the screen on the iPod does like normal and goes to the gray and orangeish screen that says Connected, then immediately says Disconnecting iPod and shows the little progress bar as if you had ejected it. How can it do this on it's own before anything has recognized it?
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