My 3g 30gb ipod is continually reseting itself- please help

hello, my first post on apple support so thank you for looking.
my 3g 30gb has ceased to work!- every time i try to turn it on it displays the apple logo for about 10seconds then this disapears very briefly then after another 5 seconds the logo disapears and this process starts again it does this continual reseting until it ran out of battery! very annoying
I tried to connect it to my mac to see in vein if this would make it snap out of what its doing - it didn't.
has anyone else experainced this?, or heard of anyone having this problem.
any words of advice greatly appreciated!
thanks in advance
J

I was about to post the same issue, when I saw this one. My 60gb photo iPod for Windows has the same problem. I would restore it, but it never starts up all the way to be able to run the Update/Restore software.
I start it up, and it displays the apple for about 5-8 seconds, then starts up again. If left alone, it will continue to do this until the battery runs dead. All the while, in a quiet room, you can hear the "bweee... bweee... bweee..." of the drive spinning up from a dead stop every time it restarts.
If anyone has any ideas at all, I'd love to know if this was a software or hardware problem and if there is any way to fix a software problem without being able to start the ipod. Is there some equivalent of "safe mode" for a desktop?

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