I have a T60p widescreen (8744-C9U). I recently upgraded ram to 4gb and to take advantage of it I upgraded the OS to Vista 64 bit. I have some problems with the wireless though.
If I change the power state at all, including sleep, hibernate or even just unplug from the wall, the wireless network will no longer be available. It will still appear as connected in the systray, but won't respond when hovering or going to "connect to". After about 5 minutes the system will BSOD with a 0x9f stop code DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE. There is no way to avoid this. If I try to shut it down or restart it, it will hang in the process until the BSOD. I end up holding the power button down each time.
Things I have done.
1) Install latest Thinkpad power manager (v2.50) and acpi power management (v1.53)
2) Update BIOS to latest (v1.15)
3) Update wireless card software/driver to latest (ThinkPad 802.11a/b/g/n, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter v7.6.1.237)
4) Turn off "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"
5) Uninstall all thinkpad power management software
6) Uninstall wireless software (leaving driver)
7) Uninstall wireless driver
9) Turn off "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" again (guess it got turned back on when I changed drivers)
10) Uninstall wireless software (leaving driver)
Support pretty much said they don't support vista 64 on this machine. They know about the problem and there is not a solution.
I'm just about out of ideas here. Has anyone solved this?
P.S. I originally had this problem on XP 32 bit as well but a simple upgrade of the wireless driver solved it then.
Thank you for any input!!!




