Network icon disappear...and It appears again when I remove the battery!

Hi to everyone.
This "strange" issue appears now on a lot of pcs so it must be something that someonelse have experienced...
WIndows XP SP3 with italian multilanguage installed, pcs are Lenovo T400, X200 and  X200 tablets.
Sometime happens that the network icon (wireless and lan) doesn't appear on the taskbar, and when this happens you are not able to open the network connections.
The "funny" thing is that if you remove the battery from the laptop, the network icon appear again and network connection magically opens! I've tried to update pcs drivers but without any remarkable result.
Has someone reported a similar issue?

Any suggestions on what this can be?
A dead battery.  Buy a new one.

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