Odd clicking noise when connecting to my macs

My friends from Switzerland brought his ipod that just stopped working, when I plugged it to the outlet the machine powers up but when we remove it fails to transfer over to the battery. Now I concluded (with some help here) that there must be something wrong with the battery. But when I plug it to the USB 2.0 ports on the Quad G4 I hear a click or beeping sound like it is trying to load it but it can't. Now it is windows formated but it should appear with at least a message on my machine. Could the USB 2.0 chip also be fried since USB 2.0 was never originally designed to carry power like Firewire was. If it is then should I buy him a new one or replace the motherboard myself.

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