Sorry for such a delay, had a lot going on.
After doing all the driver updates, I still kept seeing all those issues.
I wiped out my hard drive and re-installed Windows 7 from scratch. After it started, I had a couple of hard freezes.
The error log showed the same exact critical error kernel as I was having prior to the reformat.
I am led to believe that now it might be caused by a hardware issue?
The built in diagnostic passed for everything and I even ran a memtest which cleared my RAM.
It's gotten to be very frustrating, and I'm fearing for the worst, like the motherboard or CPU.