BSOD from ntoskrnl.exe

There's a component of the realtek audio drivers that is very old, the driver labeled as MBfilt64.sys. While your other parts are dated sometime this year, this one seems to be left dormant with a timestamp of July 30, 2009. Perhaps it's some old remnant left behind from when you installed your motherboard's drivers? Sometimes Driver Sweeper will help clean up these ancient relics, which you can then use the opportunity to install fresh new drivers. Remember to get the drivers from your mobo vendor, not from realtek.

Your motherboard vendor's website should all the drivers for components like network and audio. You look to have an ASRock 970 Extreme 4. Go to the website, go to the appropriate page for that mobo, and download the drivers. Do not download any utilities or software (or the "driver" marked AICharger if it exists). In fact, if you have any software that came with your motherboard software suite (the cd that came with your mobo), you'll want to uninstall em (prolly with Driver Sweeper). Update BIOS too while you're at it, of course.

I've gotta say, Vir, you are speaking tech on a slightly higher level than me. Could you dumb it down just a little bit? :)

I went to AS Rock's homepage, but I can't search for AsRock 970 under Downloads - and I certainly have no idea how to upgrade my bios. As I recall, I didn't install motherboard drivers. It just worked after installing Windows.

What browser are you using? The ASRock website has in their download section a very simple interface, which is on the left side what type of stuff you're looking for (BIOS, Drivers, Utilities, Other) and then when you click on one it'll list their motherboard brands. Perhaps your browser has a hard time displaying it?

The drivers list is indeed a bit cumbersome. What you want to do is click the name of the motherboard you have and it'll bring up its own page dedicated to that mobo. You then click the "Downloads" section on the left and it'll bring you a list of downloads specifically catered to that mobo. I recommend you grab all drivers except the AppCharger. Stay away from the utilities, but note their names and uninstall any from your system that you may find with the same name.

The BIOS should be a little bit more trickier only in that its installer will have your system restart, then it will apply the BIOS update, then restart again. Make sure of course that your system is stable during this update (don't run other applications, etc.) as if this messes up, you may end up bricking your motherboard, which means it'll no longer function and you'll need to replace it.

Alright, I found this: ASRock > Synchronizing Web Database

How many of these do I need to download, and do I need to install them in a specific order?

Doesn't matter on order. Get All-in-one, Lan, Audio and USB drivers.

Sounds like a graphics issue, or the "screen" being faded to white may perhaps be Explorer.exe hanging, which will cause your desktop and taskbar to fade to white, much like when any other application happens to be unresponsive for a while. Does this sound right to you? Or do you think it's some form of graphics artifacting that's taking place?

No, it definitely doesn't feel like explorer.exe crashing. The screen was acting all weird. When it happened last night, there were big blotches of different colors on the screen, but it looked like it was "pulsing".

Smells like a graphics problem to me. Looks like your GPU is pretty bad off. If it's onboard (on the motherboard), it's time to look for replacing the motherboard. If it's a dedicated graphics card, that's gonna have to be replaced.

Could this be whats causing the BSOD's? Whats funny is that this pixelation only happens when I'm just browsing the net, but I have not yet seen it while playing a game.