IPod Shuffle: No recognition but somehow still being read?

I have a iPod Shuffle (2gen) that I ended up getting for free from someone else. Problem is that it doesn't show up on my Mac (laptop) or iTunes whatsoever but from what I see when I look at the iPod it's blinking orange so it's being read? I just bought a new dock for it and I've got the newest version of iTunes that my system will support. And when I take it to the PC downstairs it reads on the PC but when I open files it says there are none on it when there most certainly is (though that might be because the PC does not have iTunes on it and therefore does not read the files). Every once and a while when I plug it into the USB of my Mac it'll get a Low Power output thing but that's only sometimes and of course the other half of the time it does nothing anyway. I've read and done what I could for it but I'm new to the quirks of ipods let alone any sort of music player.
How do I fix this?

Hi Jonathan,
Sounds like your iPod is beyond the kind of help you can find here. You've done all the fixes I would suggest. Thankfully, the iPod shuffle has a one year warranty, so I would sent it in asap and you'll get a nice new iPod in no time flat!
http://depot.info.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
Good luck!
Sara.

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