Asus G73JW and Windows 10 freezing

I've just updated my relatively old Asus G73JW to windows 10 (fresh install - I don't like upgrades). All seem well until the 1st restart, when I'd end up with black screen after reboot. Couple hard-resets later and trying to disable various start-up programs (I was suspecting display drivers from NVidia) and situation wasn't improving - sometimes I was able to log-in, but system would freeze randomly after couple seconds/minutes. Sometimes I'd end up with BOD with MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION.
Next step was to boot into safe mode - interestingly, I couldn't get into "Safe mode with networking" (option 5) - that ended up with the BOD. Luckily, just "Safe mode" (option 4) worked fine and system wasn't freezing. This got me thinking that maybe it was the network card causing the problems. So I went to Device Manager and disabled the following:

This resolved my issues with both, BOD as well as freezing. I'm running on WiFi, so having the physical LAN disabled is not an issue for me, but there might be updated driver somewhere that might fix the issue as well.