Ok, I believe I have solved this problem from re-occuring. I believe it is the power management options that are bugging the card out as there is also a wifi card installed. So instead of both running it kills the power to the adapter.
You may need to restart your PC multiple times because of this glitch. The card eventually showed up for me after I lost it yet again. Go to device manager, power management settings. unclick "allow this computer to turn off this device to save power". It dropped my connection after I did this, restarted and it came back w/ no issues.
I have not lost it since this happened.