T61 Wireless Shuts Off

I bought it a year ago, and about a month ago the wireless radio shuts off, and will not turn back on, even when I use the switch, or go into the Netwwork Connections and tell it to enable the wireless radio. I have tried downloading new drivers, and updating the Access Connection center. Also have tried making the wireless the main choice with in the Access Connections, but it will not save the changes, and chooses the LAN line. I think the computer "stops" using the wireless, shuts it off, and then tries to use the LAN line, which is not connected.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks.

PROBLEM: My T61 is about 1.5yrs old and the wireless also started crashing about 1mo ago...when it does crash, right clicking the wireless icon (in system tray) and choosing the 'Diagnose and repair' function does not fix the problem...in fact, most times when the wireless crashes, the wireless icon is not selectable (and if i try to right click it, this causes the whole system to hang)..none of the other menu driven solutions fix the problem (if anything, it crashes the computer)...it also cannot be fixed by physically cycling the off/on switch for the wireless...a wireless crash can only be temporarily fixed by fully rebooting...however, sometimes after a reboot following a wireless crash, the whole system will crash, i.e., yesterday during reboot i got a BLACK screen of death (not the typical BlueSOD, instead the LCD lost power) and it hung for an eternity (i could here the drive and fan running) so i had to unplug the power cord and battery to reset things...none of this crashing during reboot BS ever happened until yesterday after using ThinkVantage System Update.
SETUP: running Vista Business with SP1, 2gb ram, sometimes 4gb of ReadyBoost is used but not since having the wireless problem...no other problem with this T61 except USB 2.0 performance is pitiful (a well known Vista problem)...no virus or adware/spyware detected during recent scans.
UPGRADES: Until yesterday, i avoided updating my T61 using ThinkVantage System Update because the updates seemed to be a waste of space and often degraded performance and/or caused real problems...and because the ThinkVantage suite, as a whole, seems to slow down Vista (it's so much slower than XP Pro), I had uninstalled or deactivated as much of the ThinkVantage suite as possible.
Therefore, as i hadn't installed any ThinkVantage updates in over a year, i can say with 99% confidence the wireless problem is due to a Vista or IE7 updates...the 1% unconfidence could point to a update/upgrade to Firefox 3.x which maybe took place around similar time the wireless started going bad (Anyone suspect problems with FF3.0 on T61???).
Due to the wireless card problem, i decided to install all available upgrades using the ThinkVantage System Update yesterday and it didn't fix anything...in fact, i'd say the wireless card now crashes more often (i've had to reboot 6-8 times since yesterday).
ALSO the PowerManager crashed on start up even though it's worked flawlessly for 1.5yrs...so i'd say PowerManager 2.37 should be avoided. Yes...i tried to uninstall, reboot, and reinstall PM 2.37 but it still crashes.
If it matters to any techies, during yesterday's upgrade, i included the most recent BIOS upgrade (i can't remember the version)...who knows what problems this is causing.
Solutions?
Message Edited by TommyT on 12-22-2008 11:02 AM
Message Edited by TommyT on 12-22-2008 11:11 AM
Message Edited by TommyT on 12-22-2008 11:13 AM

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