Hello everyone,

Everything was working incredibly well with Fusion on my iMac/10.5.6 until last week. Since then, every day at least once or twice I see the blue screen originating from ndis.sys DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. There is no particular action that seems to invokes it. Any ideas on how to avoid the system crashing on me so frequently. I have included below detailed error messages and stack crawl from the crash.

thanks,
abhigyan

Fusion 2.0.3 (156731)
Guest Operating System: Vista Enterprise x86 English with SP1
Guest Settings: 2CPUs/1024MB/3D Enabled/Bridged Network/SCSI Disk 32 GB/Floppy/No printers/USB devices/CD Auto detect
Host: intel iMac, 2 Cores.

Windbg output:
0: kd> !analyze -v
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DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)
An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an
interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usually
caused by drivers using improper addresses.
If kernel debugger is available get stack backtrace.
Arguments:
Arg1: 00000014, memory referenced
Arg2: 00000002, IRQL
Arg3: 00000000, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation
Arg4: 81f799d0, address which referenced memory

Debugging Details:

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READ_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from 81949868
Unable to read MiSystemVaType memory at 81929420
00000014

CURRENT_IRQL: 2

FAULTING_IP:
ndis!ndisParseReceivedNBL+a8
81f799d0 8b5914 mov ebx,dword ptr ecx+14h

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1

DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT

BUGCHECK_STR: 0xD1

PROCESS_NAME: System

TRAP_FRAME: 819078b8 -- (.trap 0xffffffff819078b8)
ErrCode = 00000000
eax=837e3208 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=819079a4 edi=837e3180
eip=81f799d0 esp=8190792c ebp=81907940 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc
cs=0008 ss=0010 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0030 gs=0000 efl=00010246
ndis!ndisParseReceivedNBL+0xa8:
81f799d0 8b5914 mov ebx,dword ptr ecx+14h ds:0023:00000014=????????
Resetting default scope

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 81f799d0 to 8186cd24

STACK_TEXT:
819078b8 81f799d0 badb0d00 00000000 00000002 nt!KiTrap0E+0x2ac
81907940 81f79b40 819079a4 837e3180 81907984 ndis!ndisParseReceivedNBL+0xa8
8190798c 81f79835 009079a4 81863645 8502d438 ndis!ndisSortNetBufferLists+0x7d
81907b08 81ec1123 8502d438 00000000 00000000 ndis!ndisMDispatchReceiveNetBufferLists+0xce
81907b44 81ec1234 907b7400 81907b94 81907c50 ndis!ndisDoPeriodicReceivesIndication+0x170
81907b68 818c8c40 83fba728 00000000 9a8c2895 ndis!ndisPeriodicReceivesTimer+0x48
81907c88 818c8876 81907cd0 fd000002 81907cd8 nt!KiTimerListExpire+0x367
81907ce8 818c83c3 00000000 00000000 0048a1bf nt!KiTimerExpiration+0x2a0
81907d50 818c6edd 00000000 0000000e 00000000 nt!KiRetireDpcList+0xba
81907d54 00000000 0000000e 00000000 00000000 nt!KiIdleLoop+0x49

STACK_COMMAND: kb

FOLLOWUP_IP:
ndis!ndisParseReceivedNBL+a8
81f799d0 8b5914 mov ebx,dword ptr ecx+14h

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 1

SYMBOL_NAME: ndis!ndisParseReceivedNBL+a8

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

MODULE_NAME: ndis

IMAGE_NAME: ndis.sys

DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 479190e7

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0xD1_ndis!ndisParseReceivedNBL+a8

BUCKET_ID: 0xD1_ndis!ndisParseReceivedNBL+a8

Followup: MachineOwner