Network Adapter Needing Constant Restarting

XenoLancer · July 11, 2017

First off, I don't know if that's the right forum to post this.

For the last few days, my laptop's wifi adapter suddenly shows me that it's connected to the wifi connection but there is no connection and all network connections around me disappear (there are at least 20 wifi connections that usually show up around me when everything is right). I have to restart the wifi adapter for this to get fixed which is irritating sometimes but I can get around it. Since yesterday, though, when I disable it to restart it, it doesn't seem to enable back at all. It says "Enabling..." then "Enabled." then the box disappears without it enabling at all. I tried to use the troubleshooter since it usually fixes it when it just needs a simple restart but in the case of the adapter not enabling back, it just keeps searching for like 5 mins and in the end it tells me "Windows Troubleshooter could not identify the problem". In that case, I'm always forced to restart the laptop but for some reason, it takes over 10 minutes saying "restarting" then it crashes (showing windows 10's BSoD) and force restarts itself. I have no idea what might be causing this except that it only happens once a day making me suspect it's some script by a malware or something but I ran multiple scans using multiple tools and it didn't catch anything unusual.