Crash Followed By "Honking" Noise?

I've tried to find the solution myself, but it seems like no one has the same problem I have. Before I get started, I'll post my computer build in case that info is needed:

Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
AM3 AMD 870
EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570
Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
CORSAIR Professional Series HX750 (CMPSU-750HX) 750W 80 PLUS SILVER

Scenario:This first happened when I started playing Lineage II about a month ago. At that time, my GPU was a Radeon HD 6870. I had all the max settings on and I'd run the game just fine.. for a about an hour. After that, the screen's graphics would become "distorted" and freeze at the same time. Then, moments later, Windows would tell me that the game crashed. I'd close out the screen and then seconds later, a "honking" type noise emits from my speakers. I would try to run something else, but the graphics on the desktop would become distorted as well as I explored Windows. My temporary solution? I restarted my computer. Problem fixed... temporarily.

This problem persisted with Rift as well. I'd play for about an hour and then the screen's graphics would go haywire and freeze, followed by a crash screen and then that honking noise from my speakers would come out. The honking noise would be consecutive skips rather than one long noise ("honks" that would last for a few seconds, quiets itself down, and repeats). To give an idea as to what the noise sounded like, imagine an old car with a really whimpy honking noise that is sorta high pitched.

-Civilization V
-Lineage II
-Wurm Online (this game + multi-tasking on the web)
-Neverwinter Nights 2

NOTE: The only game I don't happen to have a problem with (and consumes the most power out of my system) was Final Fantasy XIV.

1.) Updated all my drivers (graphics card, speakers, SSD, etc.)

2.) Ran a memory test to see if my memory was faulty (it wasn't)

3.) Returned everything back to factory settings, BIOS-wise (I OC'd a few times via TurboV EVO program that came with the mobo, but I returned all the settings back to the stock levels)

4.) Updated DirectX 11 as much as I could

5.) Ran dxdiag, only to find out there were no problems

6.) Ran Heaven Benchmarks to see if my GPU was at fault (33.6 avg FPS on max everything btw )

7.) The computer had a fresh install on the SSD, so all the drivers and such were installed on there

I can't think of anything else, but I tried a lot of things to figure out what my problem was; however, I realized that there was a place that I didn't pay attention to: Event Viewer.This is why I wrote my message on this particular forum. I figured that this was a software issue that needs to be resolved, but this is all just me guessing. Everytime I had the crashing and noise issues from running games, I would look on the Event Viewer afterwards to see if the problem was logged. This issue in particular always pops up after I restart the computer as a result of my computer crashing: (this occurred recently when I had Wurm Online with Hulu opened at the same time)

Faulting application name: iexplore.exe, version: 9.0.8112.16421, time stamp: 0x4d76255d
Faulting module name: Flash11f.ocx, version: 11.1.102.62, time stamp: 0x4f39bda1
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x000a23d5

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All of these reports have a "Error" as their level, "Application Error" as their source, "1000" as their Event ID, and "(100)" as their Task Category.