So none of the solutions thus far have yielded any success. The most recent time I had the problem occur of course I was doing homework but something new did happen. I went my normal route of troubleshooting to turn the adapter back on but it did not work. I went into the device manager and tried to manually reset the adapter but when I tried to enable the adapter it came up with an yellow exclamation mark. When I checked the properties this is what it had in the device status box.
"This device cannot start. (Code 10)
{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful."
No matter I tried it would not turn back on until I completely uninstalled the driver and restarted my computer. My computer was not overheated, I was not downloading anything just doing research for homework. Also when it first starts having problems the device status says that it is enabled and is working properly but the radio button for the wifi says that it is turned off. I am unable to use the radio button to turn it on.
