IPod won't connect and charge--Please Help

hey all. I've had my video iPod for a while. Here's the problem: it was recently connected to a random windows PC, and now it won't work. It was fully charged last I knew, and when I tried to use it it wouldn't turn on. Rather than doing that, it would show the apple logo, then light up, then turn off and one of the two battery charge signals would appear (those being the large one and the smaller more modern looking one). I've connected it to two other computers, one being a windows laptop, and I've recently realized that the computer (any of the three) no longer realizes that there is a hardware connected. If anyone can please help I'd greatly appreciate it.

I hav a 30g video ipod aswell and am having a similar problem. I connected it to a friends computer who did not have I tunes and it my ipod froze and has never connected to my computer since. This was about 6 months ago. It will not charge on my computer, in fact my computer does not even recognize that there is anything connected to it.
I have tried resetting but that has done nothing, if anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them. Thanks!

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A couple of items...
It's possible that a cable can charge an iPod on a wall charger wonderfully, but not sync the iPod to the computer. One of mine are in that "half-broken" stage, so I just ended up leaving it in the system I use to connect my iPod to my television.
Regarding the error you're receiving when connecting the iPod... is the iPod jailbroken? If not, try creating a new user account on your computer and connecting the iPod there.
Creating a new user in Windows XP:
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I know you've already uninstalled and reinstalled Apple software, but this recommendation doesn't hurt. Open your Control Panel and go into Add or Remove Programs. Remove Apple Mobile Device Support and iTunes. Then, open up My Computer, go to your hard drive, and open up the folder called Program Files. If you see a folder called Apple Mobile Device Support, delete it. Then, restart your computer, download a new copy of the iTunes installer from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ and go through the installation.
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Thanks for taking the time to read my posting.
I have a 3rd Gen 40gb iPod which was running the 2.2 firmware on Windows XP, which has been fine up until recently. The songs started to randomly skip during playback; this went on for a few weeks. So I decided to restore/reformat the iPod using the iPod updater software and this is where the problem started.
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