Pc won't recognize USB drive

i have never been soooo disgusted with a product like i am with this!!! seems i am not alone. bought my son's 4th gen ipod nano as a christmas gift on black friday, christmas morning came and guess what? yep, the **** thing didn't work. updated everything from windows, followed all of tech support advice and direction and guess what? still doesn't work! my pc still doesn't recognize the USB driver, keeps showing me an unknown device, when i uninstall and reinstall the only change i have gotten is one time, it finally recognized the ipod driver but kept getting the message that it can't start code 10. Tried updating the driver and nothing except it shuts windows down and gives a stop warning. the jerks at apple are worthless and i will never purchase another apple product again. never had this problem with his 2nd gen nano, their new and improved *****! any advice?

After several hours the issue is gone. Not sure what the solution was unfortunately, I've been messing around quite a bit :).
The machine booted fine from my USB stick with linux on it - so it did boot from USB. For some odd reason it didn't boot from my Windows Vista installer stick tho' - which had me worried. There's no USB options in the BIOS (other than IRQ - so no legacy
mode etc.). I have blown quite a bit of dust from the mobo and reset the CMOS. After booted windows after that it was a tad slower than usual, came with a message your computer needs to be rebooted for these changes (no idea what 'these' are tho' :)) and even
without rebooting it was functioning again.
Either something was very wacky in the BIOS or the dust was causing some form of interference that didn't interfere with everything (like linux stick working but windows not for boot).
Strange stuff - but it's working again :).

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