Self-Restarting iPod

My 30GB iPod keeps restarting by itself at random times. It will do it while a song is being played (whether or not the iPod is on hold), sometimes it will restart itself if the Next Song button is clicked, and sometimes it will do it at the end of an album or playlist. What should I do to fix this, or is it something I can't do on my own?

Yes I am having the same problems! And with the same music too! (Ben Folds--Way To Normal)
After Ben folds though,I bought another new album, and it is having the same problem... (James Morrison--Songs for You, Truths for Me [just incase anyone was intersted or if it makes a difference]) I guess I will have to write to customer service like you did, and hopefully I'll no longer have this problem. It's getting extremely frustrating
And yes, like you, it hasn't happened before I downloaded itunes 8.
hmmmm....

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Finally got it working.. Ok so First read this
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Just start with verifying the Apple Mobile Device Support is up and working, Just follow the steps here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1567
After Stopping it and Restarting and it is still not reconizing your device Then start uninstalling
Start with: Itunes, Quicktime, Bonjour, Apple Software Update, Apple Mobile Device.
I had an issue uninstalling Apple Software Update, and was unable to get it off my computer.
But after all that download and reinstall itunes.
After doing all that i was able to get mine to show up in itunes
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About the computer: early 2008 Mac Pro dual 2.8, 4GB stock ram, OS 10.6.7. Additional hardware includes: aftermarket ATI HD3870 (to replace failed stock card), Black Magic Decklink I/O; 1TB OSX HDD, 320GB Windows 7 HDD and 2x 1.5TB storage drives in RAID 0; Pioneer BD burner.
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I have a Mac Pro 1,1 that recent gave me similar problems.
When in Leopard or Windows XP, computer would randomly shutdown completely. Typically I was surfing the web and seemed to happen more often when watch Youtube videos.
Started off happening once in a while and then computer was unusable as it would not complete the boot up in to either OS. When I would power up after a shutdown, light would come on and I would hear "TaDa" and could hear drive activity----then sometimes it would just cycle with repeat attempts as noted by another "TaDa". If I was really patient, it would sometime boot into stable configuration only to have computer just have another hard shutdown after a few minutes.
Did a lot of internet searching and I though it was the logic board or power supply. Did SMC rest, PRAM reset. Checked the DIAG_LEDS. Figured it hard to be a hardware problem as issue was present in Mac OSX and XP.
Ultimately caved in and took computer to the Apple Store---they ran diagnostics. Diagnostics said one memory riser card was failing---replaced it for $50. Got home---same problem.
Back to Apple Store for a week. They replaced the second memory riser card and all is better now. Was not logic board or PS.
Computer is fine except can no longer get the Startup Manager screen to come up after holding OPTION key to select which OS (Leopard or XP) to boot into.
Hence the reason I came to the Apple Discussion board. Saw your problem and though I would add my recent experience.
I will be adding my current issue under a new thread.
You might try seeing if the problem occurs in OSX and Windows---if so---seems to indicate it is hardware and not software.
Good Luck.
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- Try closing iTunes and then disconnect the iPod from the computer. Then reconnect the iPod. If the iPod shows in iTunes then you can try again. However, You should try to resolve the error message first.
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Reset iPod touch: Press and hold the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home
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Hello everyone again,
I'm updating this post to ensure anyone interested may know how to definitely solve this issue.
After verifying that same annoying issue was also found with EMET 4.1 update 1 (valid for its 1st 4/30/2014 release, and verified also with
current and latest 5/29/2014 version) I recently made some little more investigation and after noticing its weird command line (reported by Process Explorer) simply as :
--NoRestart
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"EMET 4.1 Update 1 Agent"="\"C:\\Program Files\\EMET 4.1\\EMET_Agent.exe\" --NoRestart"
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203170
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