T410s: Wifi dead, Bluetooth turned on, short?

I've had my T410s since 2010 built to spec, and apart from the screen corruption issue that has plagued these laptops, ultrabay battery falling out from chassis flex, and other growing pains from taking over the reins from IBM, it's been a relatively great laptop.
Fast forward to today when the wifi serendipitously died and Bluetooth came on, at least I don't recall Bluetooth being on in the past. Has this happened to anyone? It's not even detected in Device Manager on Windows 7 nor an option wiht Fn + F5. My initial reaction is to replace the Intel wifi card, hoping that it fixes things - but would it be better just to cut my losses and move forward with a new laptop?
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Try booting a "live" Linux CD and see whether the wireless operates in that environment. That way, you'll know whether you're looking at a software bug or a hardware failure.
Good luck.
Cheers,
George
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