BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER on tethered SmartPhone.

[Guest Bret]

Hi,

 

I configured an accociate's Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with the intent on

connecting a Cingular SmartPhone 2125 (Windows Mobile 5) via the phone's

native "Modem Link" software (aka "tethering via USB cable"). Basically, you

create a "Dial-Up" connectoid in XP with a special phone number, start the

Modem Link software on the phone, and then make the "Dial-Up" connectoid

"dial" the phone. You then have access from the laptop to the internet via

the phone's EDGE service.

 

Before the Dell, they successfully used Modem Link on an old AMD K6 300 NEC

laptop. The new Dell is running XP Pro SP2 (ie. a bare XP SP2 installation

with only critical updates installed: no antivirus, antispam, no 3rd party

software whatsoever). The Modem Link software works for about 3 minutes (they

have internet connectivity) and then the Dell laptop bluescreens with:

 

Bugcode_USB_Driver

Stop: 0x000000FE (0x00000005, 0x89BCB080, 0x10024387, 0x89C61F90)

 

In the context of "Stop: 0x000000FE" , my research shows that 0x00000005

means:

 

"A hardware failure has occurred due to a bad physical address found in a

hardware data structure. This is not due to a driver bug."

 

Could someone explain to me in a little simpler way (if at all possible)

just what the above paragraph means?

 

I'm trying to determine if the problem is in the USB chip set in the laptop,

or a problem with the USB tethered SmartPhone.

 

Thanks,

Bret