Ipod reseting at random?

Hi,
i've had my 5th gen ipod for just under a year now, and it seems to be resetting it's self on certain songs? the files arent corrupted on my PC and theres still another 9GB of data left from the original 30.
any ideas??
many regards
Blair Hutton

I was also having this problem after updating to firmware 1.2. I have heard that turning off the equalizer fixes the resetting too.
Look at this thread. Hope this helps.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3330395
  Windows XP  

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