I think it's probably to do with the actual dongle then.... Maybe it's just not compaticble with Windows OS or my PC or something.....

I'm gonna get another dongle, see if that makes a difference...

The BSOD alsways seems to be about a hardware conflict rather than a software/OS problem (as it always says hardware specifically) so I guess it has to do with the actual dongle itself...

time for a new one before I do anything rash like reformat