Recently i had 3 ipods die on me, within a week of each other. i have given up on the video as i can get no screen image or hard drive sound, yet all cables aer secure. as of now im getting hard drive failures on both the 4g ipods that have died. i have tried letting them sit, i have tried smacking them. i have tried it all. i was able to charge it in diagnostic mode and set it to disk mode. the ipod boots into disk mode, but as soon as the computer recognizes it, the ipod reboots. Someone has to have a solution. ill be posting more specifics on the 5g in another forum.