IPod shuts down immediately on USB connection

I have a 5th gen 30gb.
My iPod works fine to play music and I can see the menus and all.
But the instant that I connect it to any USB port on any Windows XP computer using several different cables, it shuts down.
The shutdown causes what looks to me like a ghost image of the last visible screen on my iPod to freeze there and slowly fade away to black.
The iPod never shows up in Device Manager and I cannot see it from iTunes.
I have tried resetting it and putting it into disk mode, neither of which fix the problem.
Any ideas? I think I am out of luck

Had a similar problem with mine as well.. Only it would start to transfer songs after restoring and the ipod just restarted.. And wouldn't stop.
I put it in disk mode and then plugged in the USB and transferred the songs as normal followed by a hard reset. Worked PERFECTLY fine!!
Who knows? Maybe it will work for you.

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