Carbon X1 and BIOS version 1.17

I made the mistake of being an early adopter of this BIOS upgrade. But in my defense, the update utility said it was a 'critical' update!
As a result my Carbon X1 will no longer stay hibernated if I have a USB device plugged into the USB port on the right side of my laptop. The red light flashes, the laptop goes into hibernation and about 2 seconds later the red light comes back on. I don't have this issue if I plug my mouse transceiver into the USB port on the left side.
I've already tried disabling the 'always on' USB option in the BIOS settings without success. I've also tried disabling the boot from USB device option. I'd like to keep the mouse transceiver in the port on the right and keep the left port free for my external drive. Lenovo says there is no way to revert back to the previous BIOS after this upgrade. When I spoke with tech support they asked me to send my Carbon in for a new motherboard, but that was before I discovered the ability to move the transceiver to the other port. I'm not sure a newer version of the motherboard will fix this, but I'd rather not be without my laptop for 6 to 8 business days.
Anyone else run into this and have a work around?
Solved!
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So I just went through all of the devices in 'Device Manager' and found that one of my Network Adapters had the 'Allow this device to wake the computer' turned on under it's 'Power Management' settings?? As I always do, I had disabled these when I first setup this computer. I guess somehow the BIOS upgrade had changed this??
I've been through about 5 hibernation cycles now and it stays asleep like it should!

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