unfortunately, I've tried getting a new laptop, and get the same crash.

i've also looked for new bios/firmware updates for both the laptop and the card, and found nothing.

I installed the Sprint software package on the laptop, and inserted the card while the Sprint client was running, and that didn't crash the machine, but it asked me to install drivers for the card.

When I did so, it crashed in the middle of installing "appwrdnt.sys", which returns nothing on Google. And even though I've gotten it to not crash while the client is running, windows still refuses to boot while the card is plugged in.

Weird, huh?