Ipod nano 3rd gen 8gb keeps freezing itunes

i resently got it with 1000 songs in it and i cant connect it to itunes because every time i do it freezes and i even tryed to let it sinc for about 10min and still frozen my itunes version is 11.0.4 nad my ipod is 1.1.3 i think there is no way i can fomat it because itunes freezes every time i connect it.