Thank you for the comprehensive reply, this gives me a lot to work on. For now I'll disable verifier so I don't get extra crashes while addressing these other issues. There seems to be a version of the USB 3.0 drivers that are newer than what I currently have...
I turned on driver verifier (I'd never heard of this before). Its set to "verify all drivers installed on this computer." I am still running in safemode w/ networking. So far I've had one bluescreen, but again no minidump created. I suppose I'm waiting for another crash now? If verifier...
UPDATE: The same crash just occurred while in safe mode with networking enabled. Once again, the BSOD screen froze on 'initializing disk for crash dump...' From what I've read here, this is a strong indicator of imminent hardware failure, yes?
This week I have started getting BSODs. As of yet I am unable to explain the cause, or reproduce them on demand. They simply seem to happen between 30m and 2 hours of booting my computer. At first I thought they were related to Eve Online, but I soon noticed they occur even when that program...