It appears that windows 7 had updates happening last night (8-12-2010) since when I woke up, I woke to a log in screen, and that normally means the computer was restarted.
I logged in with no issues, but then I noticed that my network cards were red Xed out in the task bar, which is strange...
64bit
code 10
core2quad
device manager
drivers
error message
evga
gbnetwork
hardware
motherboard
network cards
network issue
nic
reboot
red x
restore point
technical support
troubleshooting
update
windows 7