I've convinced myself that my particular problem, once an adequate power supply was sorted out, is heat building up if the RPi with PiFace fitted is then covered with its (plastic, unvented) case. The RPi powered through a micro-usb cable, without the PiFace fitted, happily ran for 20 hours, includi...

I've been trying to understand some similar crashes recently. I think I got some benefit out of using the little time I had after logging to update software and firmware (using apt-get update/upgrade and rpi-update). I'm not certain that it really helped but seemed to. A bit. I recommend hopping on ...

Odd: I was about to post my "me too" when I wildly tried putting the RPi in the fridge - in plastic delivery box, with silica gel sachet, for what it's worth. Fifteen or twenty minutes later and the thing booted. Then crashed again. It was up just long enough for me to ssh in and start to look aroun...