Ipod won't recognise, sync, or charge!

the other day, i realised my ipod was flat out of battery, so i plugged it into my computer and then left it, assuming that it would charge.. like usual! so i checked up on it 5 minutes later.. and to my horror, the ipod had heated up, it wasnt on, nor was it charging! so i immediately unplugged it. hours later i decided to charge it with the wall charger. it charged perfectly, so today i tried to sync it, but unfortunately, it wasnt syncing, charging, let alone windows recognising my ipod. i tried with 3 different cables, nothing was coming up! i even tried connecting another ipod to the pc, the other ipod worked, however my one still wasnt being recognised!
i have tried using the menu + select button method, and the putting to hard disk method. nothing has been working so far
please help! i really want this ipod to update with my songs!
any help would be greatly appreciated! thank you!

I hope this topic will help you
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1683413&tstart=0
otherwise I believe that vivalamofo is right...

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