Vista - vpn and ndiswan

Hello all,

I suppose I should have seen this one coming. I installed a copy of Vista
Home Premium on Tuesday on a Gateway m285 laptop. For the most part, it works
just fine. However, I have a reoccurring problem when I try to connect to the
VPN at the University of Nevada, Reno.

I can establish a wireless connection and establish the VPN. Shortly
thereafter the computer crashes to a blue screen. The error message at the
top of the screen reads IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO and at the bottom of
the screen there is an entry for NDISWAN followed by why I think are some
hexadecimal numbers.

I think I've resolved the problem by disabling the modem in the system
device manager. However, I'd like to have my computer up and running with all
the parts I paid for.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Not sure what this has to do with music - pictures - video? I think asking
in another group may give better answers, but have you contacted Gateway for
updated Vista drivers for your laptop?

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"PiD" <PiD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FD9BF41F-87AD-45F6-9A4A-592B9715D543@microsoft.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I suppose I should have seen this one coming. I installed a copy of Vista
> Home Premium on Tuesday on a Gateway m285 laptop. For the most part, it
> works
> just fine. However, I have a reoccurring problem when I try to connect to
> the
> VPN at the University of Nevada, Reno.
>
> I can establish a wireless connection and establish the VPN. Shortly
> thereafter the computer crashes to a blue screen. The error message at the
> top of the screen reads IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO and at the bottom
> of
> the screen there is an entry for NDISWAN followed by why I think are some
> hexadecimal numbers.
>
> I think I've resolved the problem by disabling the modem in the system
> device manager. However, I'd like to have my computer up and running with
> all
> the parts I paid for.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>

Correction, I still have the problem even with the modem uninstalled in the
device manager.

"PiD" wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I suppose I should have seen this one coming. I installed a copy of Vista
> Home Premium on Tuesday on a Gateway m285 laptop. For the most part, it works
> just fine. However, I have a reoccurring problem when I try to connect to the
> VPN at the University of Nevada, Reno.
>
> I can establish a wireless connection and establish the VPN. Shortly
> thereafter the computer crashes to a blue screen. The error message at the
> top of the screen reads IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO and at the bottom of
> the screen there is an entry for NDISWAN followed by why I think are some
> hexadecimal numbers.
>
> I think I've resolved the problem by disabling the modem in the system
> device manager. However, I'd like to have my computer up and running with all
> the parts I paid for.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>