E1705: Standy problem when bluetooth disabled in BIOS?

Does this happen to anyone else -- you have a laptop w/built-in bluetooth but you disable bluetooth in the BIOS. When resuming from S3 standby, you can see the bluetooth indicator light for just a sec and then turn off. But you nonetheless get an annoying Found New Hardware dialog every time you resume?

 

I have the same laptop model and I also use it with the bluetooth disabled from BIOS.
Even disabled, the blue light turns on for a little bit when the system is turned on but it goes off right after.
In your case do you mean the OS finds new hardware every time when you power it on, resume from stand-by, etc? I do not get something like this.

I might know why this is happening in your case: when you installed the OS, was the bluetooth disabled from the very begining?
In my case, when I did a fresh OS install, the bluetooth was not deactivated in BIOS. I even installed the latest drivers from the Dell website as I needed to know if it works. Then I decided I don't need it running all the time, I deactivated it from BIOS and even uninstalled the drivers/software.
I know that one of the differences between XP SP1 and XP SP2 is the fact Microsoft integrated bluetooth support in the OS kernel on SP2.

What you can try? Activate bluetooth in BIOS, install drivers, deactivate it, uninstall the drivers, see if you get the 'Found new hardware...'

Hope this helps

 

It also happens to me and is really annoting. Does anyone know of a way to fix it.

 

Well, in my case, I'm running Windows 2003 Server on my E1705, but if this same thing is happening for you, gridtalker (assuming your still running MCE), then I think it's a device manager thing.

If you open device manager and click the Show Hidden Devices menu item, do you find a hidden entry for the bluetooth chip (BCM2045)?