Need Help with 2nd gen shuffle

I recently purchased a 2nd gen shuffle from a friend. He used Mac and I have Windows Vista so I knew I would have to restore so it would configure to my Windows Vista machine. I did this, renamed and synced some music to it, charged it with no problem. My husband took it with him to work and listened with no problems. He completely used it til the battery went down and needed charging. I hooked it up thru high speed USB port. Itunes didn't recognize it, there were no lights...not even a red or orange light at all. My computer nor device manager recognize it and still no lights on the shuffle period. I've had it hooked up to different ports and no help. I have a nano that works perfectly thru the same port I used so I know it isn't the port. I've tried restarting the computer....no help. I saw the seperate program that you can download for restoring but it says it can't be used with windows vista so I can't try that. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I really could use some help with this. Thanks in advance for any insight.

And you will have to take me seriously here but, by using the on/off switch, turn it on, count 15 Mississippi and turn it off, counting 15 Mississippi. Do this three times, leave it in the off position and reconnect the ipod to the dock, then the dock to the computer.
Let me know how it goes.

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