Windows 10: Recent update rendered my pc unusable

Pc was working fine last night until I restarted to install a new update. Update failed and pc rolled back to the prior version. Since then, on startup I'm either greeted by a black screen that I can move the cursor around in, but do nothing else, or after I've entered my password on log-in, I'm stuck viewing my homescreen with no UI elements. Cursor can be manipulated, but any button shortcuts only make a white flash appear on screen briefly and nothing else. The only exception to this is ctrl alt del allowing me to open that window to restart the device. Task manager can not be opened that w

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Renderer PC

Hi all,

I'm building an Open-budget PC, and it will be used for render ......
What I know is that the Core i7 3960X is the most capable Processor available for render ... Is that right ?

and which is better ASUS Rampage IV Extreme or MSI Big Bang XPower II ?

is there any RAM kit out there to fill up 128GB on the MSI motherboard ?

And finally please suggest a full PC specs to the job and remember I have open budget

Thank you all *Big Grin

 

2004 Update Renders PC unusable

Updated to Windows 10 version 2004 last night and now the PC is nearly unusable. It took more than 14 hours. When I'm able to run the Task Manager, I see that only 5% of CPU, 32% of RAM, and 2% of Disk (SSD) is being used. I have over 380 GB of disk
space, so none of those are a problem. Clicking on the Windows Icon fails (start menu never shows up), so can't even reboot properly. Had to go to a different computer to post this. I would wait for this update to stabilize before updating to it. Very
poor quality control. I'm going to reinstall 1909.

 

"audio renderer error. please restart your computer" error youtube

And another thing to try:
Update your audio drivers (strange that this would be necessary as there hadn't been any changes for me; but it usually is a good idea to have the latest drivers anyway).
Note: We did have a PC whose audio stopped working and a BIOS update solved it. This definitely wasn't the root of the problem for that computer because it was working like normal before and there were no apparent changes (and the user didn't have administrative access). I'd recommend this as a last step. I've never had a problem with a BIOS update but prefer to do it only if there is a useful fix (and of course better to back up before).

Here's another solution that someone posted:
Audio renderer error. Please restart your computer.
I had the realtek error when using the installer, so I did these step and It Worked
note: make sure before doing these steps that you have driver enforcement disabled
< I don't know if this is necessary but that's what the poster suggested. - >

1.Go Open up device manager
2. Go under sound,video, and game controllers
3. Find Realtek High Definition Audio
4. Right click and hit update driver
<< I would think just updating the driver would probably work, but if not (for instance if it's up-to-date) then you could try the following steps as well. - >>
5. Browse my computer for driver software
6. Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer
7. Click Have Disk and hit browse
8. Click on the Realtek HD Audio mod folder and look for win64
9. Click on the HDXRT4 and click ok,
10. Click Next and Yes
After it is done, restart the PC

You should be good then and also make sure before doing these steps that you have driver enforcement disabled.