Earlier today I got a popup from Norton requesting a reboot to finish clearing out a file. I shut down all my programs and rebooted the computer. When it came back up I had lost my network connection. A check under device manager showed all drivers under "Network Adapters with a warning "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"
I first tried a system restore that did not help at all. After googling the error I tried installing all the drivers and rebooting. This did not work and resulted in a "The system cannot find the file specified. Attempts to update the driver result in the same error. I also tried the reset on the Winsock as well to no avail. Lastly I tried uninstalling Norton, which also did not help.
Booting in network safe mode does not get me network either. I am running Windows 7 - 64 and the network card is a onboard Relater RTL8168D/811D.