Thanks for he info. I had done this previously including advanced power settings to disable all hibernation and sleep functions. Thinking about it i only updated the bios to the latest none beta version a week ago, maybe this is when the bluetooth st...

Well i thought you was taking the Mick, but that worked. Wouldn't and didn't even consider doing that. Is it a common issue? thank you very much for your input.

Try the following link https://web.archive.org/ to go back to previous sites. There are probably others available.