[PyQt] Qt designer causes OS crash

Dan Halbert halbert at halwitz.org
Fri Sep 24 16:42:55 BST 2010


On Friday, September 24, 2010 11:35am, "Gavin Poludniowski" <Gavin.Poludniowski at icr.ac.uk> said:

> ...Now, when I try to drag a widget from one position in my Dialog
> to another, not only does QT designer crash, but it causes my whole OS to crash
> (as if I'd had a powercut) and restart.

> My OS is Windows XP SP3 32-bit. The only recent changes to my PC are that IT at
> work have installed MS Office 2007 and I have recently set my desktop up with two
> rather than one monitor.

Quite frankly, this sounds to me like a display driver bug. If you take away the second monitor, does this still happen? See if you can update your video drivers. You might look in Windows Update in the "Optional" section, or find out the manufacturer and download new drivers.

Dan



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