Sony Vaio Authentec Fingerprint Sensor Stops Working - USB Device not recognized

Hey guys,
Now here is my problem:
I have a Sony Vaio VPCSB3S9E with Authentec Fingerprint Reader.
Everything worked fine until 1 month ago when this started happening.
Whenever I push my laptop into sleep mode it came back but the Fingerprint log-on didn't work. I didn't pay any attention to it until it started popping up a notification message that a USB device is not recognized which in the end, proved out to be the
fingerprint sensor.
Now, i tried rolling back the driver, uninstalling the driver, installing the driver/software from scratch, even installing the latest software from authentec before the site was unavailable and  nothing helped. I tried going through several threads
around here but with no luck.
It works up until a pint where it starts malfunctioning.
Any help would be appreciated
I am running a Genuine Windows 7 x64 version with all updates installed up to date.

Hi,
Please also check Device Manager if its driver works normally. In addition, check Event viewer about this events.
Actually, I doubt whether this is hardware problem, it would be better to contact Sony to make a test.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

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