i'm gonna puke

[lauralh]

IPOD NOT CONNECTING TO MY COMPUTER

Comments

[mcsnee.livejournal.com]

Bad cable?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

seems to be.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

kill itunes
task manager > shutdown ipodservice and ituneshelper service
restart itunes

might need to turn ipod on and off

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I did reboot the computer

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

with the ipod plugged in?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

yes

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

unplug -- sometimes if it's plugged in, itunes won't read my ipod (althogh windows sees it as a USB HD just fine). restarting the services (by killing them and letting itunes restart them) is faster than rebooting...

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

well, windows doesn't see it either.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

right click my computer > manage > system tools > event viewer

any usb/firewire/disk controller errors in Event or Application logs?

Might have to re-flash the ipod software onto the device.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

nothing. I think it's the cable.

[cynica.livejournal.com]

is it saying "USB device not responding" by chance?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

not saying shit

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

wait, it said something about the USB then it went away and didn't do it again...

[cynica.livejournal.com]

I had this issue all day yesterday. I was ready to murderdeathkill 'cause I wanted my tivoshows on my gd ipod.

Turns out that my laptop had been on too long, got too hot, and the USB was being a major asshole. I let it cool off and it worked fine again. Stupid.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

weird. i keep an external hard drive plugged in all the time and this is the first time the ipod won't connect.

[fierceflawless.livejournal.com]

what is it doing?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

absolutely nothing.