Noob question: Solving crash problems

[JumbledGrass]

(4th Jun, 2014 11:50 PM)Skywatch Wrote:  First thing to do is to remove the overclocking and see if that helps.

Check the 5V psu and tell us its current rating. It may not be enough for the USB HDD as well (is the HDD powered with its own supply?)

Try adding a powered USB hub and connect that to the pi and all the usb devices to the hub.

It really sounds like it might be a power issue, but you could run a test on the SD card as well in case there are any errors on it.

Skywatch

It's this 1500mA PSU. The HDD has its own power. I therefore don't suspect a power issue related to the power supplies I'm using.

As suggested, I will try a fsck as well as turning the overclock down and see how things go. In the long run I'd rather use some OC because I have a fairly busy media grabber setup running on the same Pi, all the time and I like the performance increase overclocking seems to give to XBMC.

Thanks.