USB Aircard crashing Windows on laptop

I just bought the Cingular, err...AT&T,...err...at&t Sierra Wireless 875U
Aircard and it works fine on two of my laptops running XP, but on one
laptop it crashes Windows with the blue screen of death. I seem to think
its a Flash animation related issue unique to that one laptop from my
cursory testing. Web pages that have no Flash work fine, but CNN.com and
the dslreports.com speed tests using Flash crash it (the Java based ones
don't).

I reinstalled Adobe's Flash player, but it still crashes with one second of
the blue screen and a description of what crashed, but laptop shuts down
before I can read it.

Any ideas on this?

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DTC wrote:
> I just bought the Cingular, err...AT&T,...err...at&t Sierra Wireless
> 875U Aircard and it works fine on two of my laptops running XP, but on
> one laptop it crashes Windows with the blue screen of death. I seem to
> think its a Flash animation related issue unique to that one laptop from
> my cursory testing. Web pages that have no Flash work fine, but CNN.com
> and the dslreports.com speed tests using Flash crash it (the Java based
> ones don't).
>
> I reinstalled Adobe's Flash player, but it still crashes with one second
> of the blue screen and a description of what crashed, but laptop shuts
> down before I can read it.
>
> Any ideas on this?

It appears it might be related to the Connection Manager software. I
downloaded the Sierra 3G Watcher and CNN loads fine now, as well as Flash
based speed tests.

My tethered V557 connection was usually around 30 to 50 Kbps, with a rare
120 Kbps. The USB Aircard is pretty consistent at 170 to 190 Kbps,
depending on the server test location.