Why does my alarm on iPod classic fail to turn on

My iPod classic's alarm fails to activate. I have reset and even did a factory restore. The one thing that I notice is that when the iPod is charging and I see the battery icon, the time is also displayed. The time that shows here is inaccurate. The time that I set is right. I think the alarm is governed by the hour that shows up in the battery icon. Any ideas? I have not bothered to deal with this until it went out of warranty. Before the warranty expired,however, I got a support rep who had to call his supervisor to find out where to find the software version. While I was on hold, I found it myself. The rep also said he did not know much about the classic.

Have a look here...
macworld.com/mac-troubleshooting-what-to-do-when-your -computer-is-too-slow.
Basically... Make sure you have enough Free Hard Drive space for your Mac to Perform as expected...
This is what Apple has to say.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10798
More Info Here...
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Once while I was listening to music and it just stopped.
Looking at the iPod screen, it showed no music, no podcasts, no files of any type.
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Around this time, the iPod shown in the Finder -may- no longer show any folders.
Clicking on "Continue" I get the "Sync with iTunes" screen in iTunes and the iPod shows either "Connected" or "Synching".
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Going back to the Finder to see what "Instructions" contains, "Get Info" shows that it is a Unix Executable File of 14 bytes dated 8/20/01
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"Check for Update" show 2.0.4 is the latest version.
Just for the halibut, I clicked on "Restore iPod" (NOTE: i've been through this same process several times already so I'm just trying something different.)
The same steps as outlined on the troubleshooing page happen.
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And we're back to the "Welcome to your new ipod" screen in itunes. ITunes becomes unresponsive for a brief period, but much faster than the last restore attempt. All the summary information is the same.
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I added a couple of podcasts 137.12GB is free.
I click on the "Apply" button and synching starts (Duh, why would that happen? ie why doesn't the button say "sync"?)
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Having disconnected the iPod at this point only to have my music disappear again, I'm waiting to see what happens.
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Settings shows 11.7 GB used and 137GB free.
The "Used" is all "Other". 11.7GB is about the size of the Music and Podcasts that I loaded.
Connecting the iPod again, the iPod shows up in the Finder immediately, but not on iTunes.
The iPod shows "connected eject before disconnecting".
Minutes later, the iPod again shows the Folders listed above in the Finder and iTunes is now "not responding".
Basically, we're back to where we started.
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