Ipod sync causes causes error messages or system to reboot.

Question

I have a 30gb vid. When syncing with itunes it will give the unknown problem encountered program ending. Send message to microsoft. I have stuffed there inbox. Or my screen will go black and my computer starts to reboot. It will not reboot until I unplug my ipod.
I running windows media center. It has service pack 2 on it. I have detached all my usb stuff and tried running just the ipod same problem. I have 6 different usb port and I tried them all no luck. I uninstalled and reinstalled the software on my machine. I did a restore to the ipod a couple of times. Nothing has helped.
I ended all my excess pc apps. virus scanners and disabled the windows firewall still nothing. I went into bios and checked all my usb setting there. Nothing was out of line there. Not a lot of options to start with.
Anyone have any ideas? I giving it the weekend. If I have no success its going back to the store.

Answer 1

okay, we'll have to wait to see if the blue screen shows up.
if the PC isn't rebooting with the ipod connected, we'd better also check on this possibility:
Windows PC does not start up when iPod is connected
in the meantime, we'll set the PC to capture crash logs from the "itunes has ..." message, and minidumps from the blue screens (if you get any).
1. crash logs for the "itunes has ..." message
we'll get a crash log from itunes, and send it to so someone who can interpret crash logs.
Typically, you'll need to configure Dr. Watson on your PC in order to generate crash logs. Windows start menu -> Run. Type in "cmd". Hit return. At the prompt in the command line window that comes up, type in
drwtsn32 -i
And hit return.
This will create crash logs in Documents And Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\. There'll usually be a file in here called "drwtsn32.log"
prior to collecting the itunes crash log, delete any existing crash logs in there. (we want to make sure we send the correct crash log.)
generate the crash, collect the crash log, and send it to this email address
in the email:
(1) state the precise version number of itunes that you're using. (go into your "Help > About iTunes" to doublecheck.)
(2) include the URL to this thread so that the person who gets the email has some context, but also give as much information about the context of the crashing as you can.
2. minidumps from blue screens
To set up your machine to capture a minidump, right click on "My Computer", select "Properties", select the "Advanced" tab, select the "Startup and Recovery" Settings button, select "small memory dump" from the popup. When it crashes, look for the MiniDump file. It's usually in the folder "C:\WINDOWS\Minidump" and is called something like Mini<number>-<number>.dmp.
collect the minidump, and send it to this email address
in the email, include the URL to this thread so that the person who gets the email has some context, but also give as much information about the context of the crashing as you can.