network card crashes Vista?

[rayeve]

Hi, hope this isn't already covered elsewhere on the forum. If it is, I'm a newbie to the point of not following the tech jargon.

I installed VirtualBox on a new Vista 64 machine. It runs great, except every so often (usually while in an intensive and long download -- but at other times, seemingly random) it crashes my PC to the BSOD. And sometimes mentions an IRQ problem (which goes by too fast to read). But most of the time, it just crashes. Vista then reboots and wants to know if I want to know the cause of the crash. When I elect "yes," it tells me that the network card in my machine has caused the crash and to update to the latest drivers. However: I have(!) the latest drivers according to Vista. Further, the network card shown in the virtual machine (XP) is not the same as the one shown in the host system.

Incidentally, I had exactly the same problem (and error message) when I first tried Windows VirtualPC 2007 to create and XP machine -- before uninstalling and moving to VirtualBox. Anyone know what's going on here? And, if so, what a fix for the problem might be?

Many thanks.

[Perryg]

Things like this are usually better sent to the bugtracker. The link is below my post and you will need to setup an account there.
Please be sure to send you VBox logfile and the Windows minidump file as well. They will ask for additional information if they need it.

[vbox4me2]

However: I have(!) the latest drivers according to Vista.

Thats the problem, vista always runs behind, look on the website of the network card manufacturer for newer drivers.