I just set up a friend's iPOD and found that if the iPod is plugged in, the computer won't boot!!! Just stays stuck on the bios screen--no drives show or anything, just the top boot logo. Unplug, restart, all is fine. Also the iPOD is a US unit, but the default language was like DUTCH!!! It was HELL to get it to english. Resetting didn't do a thing. The iTunes is so annyoing... Updates, reboots, none responsive. WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THIS THING SO MUCH. IT'S SO UNFRIENDLY. This is a 60 gig unit. So HEAVY too. Who would spend $12,000 to fill it with songs anyway?

Unplug it. Seriously, try making hdd0 the first boot device in bios...that might help. Skip

HAAHAHA, I agree that iTunes is a peice of crap. I'm not a huge iPod fan as the alternatives can be cheaper and better. I like the Olympus iRobe's and the Creative Zen's. I am pretty sure that 80% of people would get most of their music off cd's they ripped or from a P2P program. You might want to try this, you can manage your iPod through this software: http://www.panic.com/audion/ Mattwizz3 : ) ... meh

Thanks Mattwizz3 :-). Well I was asking a rhetorical question. I think the thing can hold 20,000 songs--nobody would spend $20,000 to fill it except Billy and maybe some record company fatsos. Just hinting at the point that the hardware industry KNOWS these things are being used for "ILLEGAL" purposes... Which is kinda funny. Like DiVX DVD players. Yeah right. DiVX home movies are so popular... BTW, don't forget the newsgroups! My idea of a music player is a device that has the weight of a feather, you plug into the USB port (not some cable with 50 connections in it), drag in your MP3's, unplug and play. Not some crazy device that makes you scroll through menus with a all sorts of languages and makes you update it's software and takes 2 hours to get going. This iPOD weighs 3 times my little sony AM/FM walkman. I'll stick with my walkman...

FWIW, I had an HP USB printer which would bomb the boot every time. Never did solve it. Just left it off until after boot was complete. good luck ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2Go

Hi, You either have a bad IPOD or the USB port is wired incorrectly if it's a front port. Does anything else work in that port? Incorrect connections to the +5 volts in the port could prevent the PSU from comming up. Jim