BSOD Glitchy Error

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Every now and then (its completely random) my computer will BSOD, except the blue screen of death looks VERY glitchy, I only found out it was BSOD because i could barely make out a disfigured frowny face from among everything. Basically in addition to text being weird and barely even there, there are yellow-ish lines running vertically along the screen. This has only happened when i'm NOT in a video game, but i'm not sure if it could happen in a video game because i've only gotten this error ~10 times in 7 months and im not sure if its just coincidence. Every time but the last time the error happened right as i clicked on something (a link, a picture) but this last time it happened when i was just scrolling along on facebook. The reason why i'm finally making a post about this is because, at first i thought it was only clicking but i was just proven wrong, so maybe it can happen in-games too and i don't want to throw any games because of a (hopefully) easy to fix error. Every time its happened I haven't had the means to easily take a picture near me and i can't re-create the error so i never have something ready.
tl;dr Very random glitchy BSOD with yellowish vertical lines, has never happened while in a game (although it might be able too).
edit: forgot to say, I'm on windows 8.1
 

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For the yellow lines, it sounds like a graphics card error to me. Do you have the latest drivers installed?
If the driver fails then it might cause the BSOD. I recommend that you check the latest drivers and install the latest NON-Beta version (beta might be a little sketchy :) )
When you are done you can tell us the results :)