T60 unresponsive security chip

Hello all,
I've found myself in a bit of a predicament that I'm hoping somebody else has experienced or can otherwise help me with and I would greatly appreciate any help or advice offered. Yesterday afternoon I did some routine windows updates (XP) and upon rebooting my computer just hangs at "checking the status of the embedded security chip". I have yet to find any way to get it to continue beyond this point. I have tried disabling all of the various passwords and options in BIOS as well as clearing the security chip and disabling it. At this point I have a predesktop password that the system will accept and it will allow me to enter the thinkvantage recovery area though sporadically it asks me for a password to get in and I have to remove the battery and hold the power button before replacing the battery and booting in order to get it to reset. The only thing I can think of is that the security chip has just gone completely haywire and I can't quite figure out where to go from here. Thankfully, all of my important documents and files are backed up separately so there is no concern there. That being said anybody have any ideas? I'm at my wits end so any advice is welcome.
I think I've described everything I can remember but feel free to ask questions and we'll see if there is anything I left out.
System:
T60 with Windows XP
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Hi SpaceNerd12,
Check the solution here:- http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=171471#p171471
Hope it helps.
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Hello T60user12, welcome to Lenovo forums.
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Also see my post about security chip lockup on boot with XP SP3...
Just talked to Lenovo support about my problem. They told me that my T60 security chip was incompatible with XP SP3 and the fix was to not load SP3. Hard to believe that is their "solution" !!!
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After installed CSS, activated the security chip, what is it going to do? passwords / fingers are doing their own jobs indepandently. So, after activated the chip, what we can do with it?

Some reading materials on TPM.
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/pdf/CSS_data_sheet.pdf
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