I ended up reformatting the HD reinstalling windows 7, went through 10 hours of updates, and then updated to Win10. Since then there hasnt been an issue at all with the wireless.
Just as an aside. I just shut down the machine. Pulled the card, and rebooted. Then I shut down, put the card back in. and now it's working. My gut tells me this is temporary. What could be causing this?
Yesterday I came back to my PC and tapped the keyboard to wake my machine up from hibernation. Went online to do some web surfing and got that "No connection" screen that you get when something is wrong. My first instinct was the reboot the router. Which i did, to no avail. Looking down I...