XBian screen goes back doesn't recover

[malibu]

Hi,

I'm trying to import my media library, however I constantly find my screen goes black - after an undefined period of time and I'm unable to recover control of the Pi.

I was doing this over wireless using an ASUS USB-N10 USB Adapter, but I'm now trying over an ethernet cable.

Once my Pi goes into its black state, I lose all control of it - either via bluetooth keyboard, or yatse.

My external hard drive is a 3TB powered WD drive. My current attempt is being done without a wireless dongle, and the only usb connection is the hard drive.

I'm wondering whether power would be the issue ?

my current charger is a 1.0 Amp charger but I do have a 2.1 amp Belkin charger on order.


On several occasions after removing power to the xbian and rebooting, I've found it no longer boots to xbian and goes straight to a black screen, on these occasions I've found the only solution is to reflash my SD card and start again... which is becoming quite frustrating.

Ultimately I want the pi to be running 24x7, but at the moment at best I get a few hours out of it - while scraping.

Screen resolution: 1920x1080@60Hz - Full screen
Operating system: Linux 3.6.11+ #3 PREEMPT Tue Jan 8 22:27:29 CET armv6l
XBian version: 1.0a5
XBMC: 12.2 Git:20130502-32b1a5e (Compiled May 3 2013)



EDIT: And now Pi has gone dead after about 15 mins of scraping. (with only powered HDD connected and using ethernet cable).

Unable to connect via a terminal.

Will reboot, and leave it running without doing any scraping and see if it stays up.