Fn keys and bluetooth no longer functioning (T500)

[lazuli]

windows 7 on my T500 was flawless until yesterday when Fn+F3, F5, F7 and F8 suddenly refused to work. even with the hardware radio switch on, i can't power on bluetooth with fn+f5. Bluetooth doesn't show up in the device manager.

i tried uninstalling all drivers and thinkvantage utilities to no avail. any more suggestions?

[Marin85]

Have you installed any updates? These things don´t stop working all of a sudden without particular reason. It could have been also some windows update or some scheduled task (like defragging or registry "cleaning" if you have such a program installed). Check out the task scheduler, it may give you some hint what to look for.

[GomJabbar]

I am not sure if you have the same version of hotkey features that I have, but the following is in the readme file of mine.

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Technical Information
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 - The command line control for the 'Wireless switching hot key (Fn+F5)' feature.
     It is available to control the wireless radio using the following command;
        (PATH)\TpFnF5.exe [PARAMETER]Technical Information
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 - The command line control for the 'Wireless switching hot key (Fn+F5)' feature.
     It is available to control the wireless radio using the following command;
        (PATH)\TpFnF5.exe [PARAMETER]
     ,where
        PATH = C:\Program Files\Lenovo\HOTKEY
     The following parameters are defined;
        /WLON, /WLOFF    Turn on/off internal 802.11.
        /BTON, /BTOFF    Turn on/off internal bluetooth.
     ,where
        PATH = C:\Program Files\Lenovo\HOTKEY
     The following parameters are defined;
        /WLON, /WLOFF    Turn on/off internal 802.11.
        /BTON, /BTOFF    Turn on/off internal bluetooth.
        /WANON, /WANOFF  Turn on/off internal WAN.
        /UWBON, /UWBOFF  Turn on/off internal UWB.
        /ALLON, /ALLOFF  Turn on/off any radio at once.

[lazuli]

i finally solved this issue but i don't know exactly how i managed to get the hotkeys working again.. it must by some specific order in installing the drivers, sadly i don't remember which ones i installed first. i still can't make fn+f7 work but the rest are a-ok! i used the latest drivers from the support site..

UPDATE:
finally got fn+f7 to work.. i just copied the fnf7.exe (and its dll) from the folder NPDIRECT to HOTKEY and the hotkey combination worked right off the batt, not even requiring a restart! thanks to all who replied!