My computer will recognize, but not charge, my iPod nano

I have a Dell laptop with a docking port and it will recognize my iPod and update it, but once it's finished updating, it stops charging too. The first time I charged it, it worked fine, but now it won't charge anymore. . .Help, please?
thanks
Sarah

Have you tried going through this article: iPod not recognized when connected to Windows laptop over USB. Sometimes it doesn't want to give the iPod any charge because it wants to keep it to itself (it's like a human, very greedy).

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You might indeed be correct about your 'mechanicals' evaluation, but there's no way short of disassembly, inspection and testing to determine that. Someone, sometime is just going to have to take that on.
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