Fingerprint Reader Not Detected during startup on Windows 7

Dear Community Users/Tech Guru,
I am hoping somebody could shed light into a weired issue I am facing with this *stupid* Microsoft OS. I purchased a T400 last year and brought a x64 bit Windows 7 three months ago and have it setup for clean installation. I followed the procedure published in lenovo.
I had the security setup of my notebook to use pre-desktop authentication and single sign-on. I had everything setup and running.
However, after a few weeks I began to noticed that upon power up and giving a fingerprint swipe on the bios authentication, it would halt on the windows startup page (where we would normally login). It turns out that the fingerprint device is not detected! Something is not workin properly during the startup of bill gates Microsoft Windows 7! I would try a reboot on the system and it will load properly afterwards.
But I find it stupid that Windows doesn't detect my fingerprint device on startup! This happens when it's a cold boot using a battery (at least 70% of the time it turns out that way). I disabled  the single sign-on but retained the desktop authentication (means I have to swipe twice). But this f*ck OS is still not detecting it during cold start.
Anyone... please advice?
Solved!
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I attempted to reset the policy settings of CSS but then the pop up screen just got stuck:
- I did a reboot and reset the fingerprint data and password (after exporting the 
  settings),
- uninstalled the fingerprint reader and CSS
- uninstalled the CSS. I had encountered some issues while uninstalling it
  Windows is reporting that the installation log file could not be found. I manually
  downloaded the driver from the site and used the installer to remove it from my PC
- Reinstalled both CSS and Fingerprint driver
- Import all my security settings (password and fingerprint)
- Tested CSS and used fingerprint as default login method in battery mode
- Enabled Single SignIn method in CSS and BIOS
So far so good, the reinstallation fixed the issue. I did recall that there was a windows update before this mayhem on the fingerprint reader started.

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