T61p - Windows 7 - Bluetooth not functioning - Light on, not detecting devices- wrong drivers?

Hello all!

I just put Windows 7 x64 on my T61p (6462) and the bluetooth is not functioning correctly. I am thinking it is the wrong drivers. The bluetooth light is on and I can enable and disable it via Fn+F5.

In Device Manager, I see the two bluetooth devices:
Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI)

I tried un-installing both devices from the device manager, then downloading the Vista64 driver on the lenovo website, turned on the bluetooth via Fn+F5 when the driver install prompts me, but this still installed the wrong drivers. It won't use the Lenovo drivers but uses the stock windows drivers for some reason. Whenever I right click each device, I can see that it uses the drivers in the Windows\system32\Drivers\bthpan.sys from Microsoft and not Lenovo.

The bluetooth light never blinks too, I'm thinking because it is not functioning correctly with the right drivers.

How can I force Windows 7 to use the Lenovo drivers rather than using the default windows drivers that don't work. I tried using the update driver function but it says that the current drivers are up to date.

Thanks!

 

did you resolve this? have same problem.

 

Do both of you have ThinkVantage Access Connections installed? This enables the functionality for the Fn+F5 enable/disable of Bluetooth, and might help.

 

I do not have ThinkVantage Access Connections installed, and I have that functionality. I used the latest driver from Lenovo intended for Vista for bluetooth. I do have one issue though and that is an unrecognized bluetooth device in the device manager. However, my bluetooth functions as intended with activesync and file transfers.

 

Folks I fixed the problem. Took about 5 hours as was committed to try everything. Lenovo needs to do a better job and should be called to the carpet.

Don't quite recall all the steps but here are some things. The no peripheral device message driver message can be resolved but going to Device Manager and installing a driver by pointing to the C RIVERS folder. W7 will search for it. This will still not give you the AUDIO tab you are accustomed to seeing in Vista 32 bit. Next DESPITE what Lenovos site says about T61 (and other excluded models) not being supported and to download the Vista drivers, I installed the latest drivers for W7 anyway even tought the notes say the T61 is not supported. After his everything works, can get sound! I cannot remember all the steps I took but these are the most critical. Along the way I dd install the Vista drivers Lenovo recommended for the T61 despite the fact they are on the W7 page at Lenovo's driver site. Maybe those drivers actually loaded when I pointed to C RIVERS to address the no peripheral device message.

The only other problems I am having so far are:
1) Password Manager is not working. In Vista, when I go to a page, it will ask me for a thumprint to automatically input a password. Cannot get this to work. Y'all have this problem?

2) Cannot get CutePDF Writer to work properly. The PDFs I made come out blank.

Thanks!

 

Wish I could figure out what you said. . . .