Nano appears dead

I have a second generation Nano. I have only had it for 3 months and I went to play it in my car and it went completely dead, or so it seems. I had it fully charged before plugging it in, and now the screen is black. I tried plugging it into my computer and there is no change. It is not recognized by iTunes or the computer. I have also tried resetting it and there is no change. Any solution to my problem?
Second generation Nano Windows XP

Wow! I can't wait to see what that looks like. I was just at the Apple store and they only have the 3rd generation Nano for sale
Let's first figure out what iPod you have. Go here:
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/
And pick the one that looks most like yours. Also, under settings, click on about and tell us how much memory it has.
Then, let's make sure you went through all the proper steps for trying to unstick an iPod. Click on the one that looks like yours, and do everything in order.
Let us know...

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seems to me that your poor poor nano died becuase the sweat caused a short somewhere inside. Where did the sweat land?
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I received my black nano last night and proceeded to charge it by connecting it to the front USB 2 port in my DP 2.5 powermac. Everything appeared allright, it seemed. But this morning when I tried to turn it on it didn't. I plugged it back for almost 5 hours, and after trying the resetting instructions (juggle with the hold button, and press menu and center for 5 to 6 sec) nothing worked. I'm stuck with customer service, but I guess my best bet is to go to a store nearby and have it checked?. Any guidance you can provide me with before going to Apple store?, it will be very much appreciated.

Wow what a bummer Leticia it sounds like its dead, if the Apple logo didnt appear after reset I would assume something has given up.
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Just received my player this morning. Connected and transferred a couple of albums via windows explorer. Disconnected and had a listen, sound was ok. Reconnected to add some more music. Paste operation froze windows explorer, safely remove hardware button did nothing and the only option was a hard reset. Now player wont switch on at all, not even a logo screen and pc doesn't recognize it so cannot reflash the firmware. Most disappointing.

Thanks for the tips shellshock. I spent quite some time yesterday trying to bring the player back to life to no avail, so its now winging its way back to Amazon.
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: 8am. Grab parcel from postman and unwrap excitedly
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3: Open windows explorer and copy two folders across to player as with any UMS device (Supertramp and Erik Satie no less)
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6: Attempt to copy and paste a further folder of mp3's to the player using windows explorer at which point onimously the hourglass mouse cursor indicates work in progress without any sign of a progress bar appearing to indicate files in transit (the player does however display a data transfer in progress animation
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: The PC now seems to think the dead Nano is a 'STMP3500' (i'm guessing this is the chipset used by the player) and furthermore wants drivers to match. Downloading latest drivers from Creative is useless as they are only 32 bit and will not work with Windows XP 64bit, so the PC is now having none of the dead Nano
2: Attemping to activate the emergency reset by attaching the Nano to a USB port (various ports tried) whilst holding down the power button for 20 seconds or so (several times) proves futile as all my PC now wants is drivers for a goddam 'STMP3500'!
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4: 3pm. Player is unceremoniously re-wrapped with curses into its packaging and marched to the post office for despatch to Amazon's returns department for a refund
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