Audio Renderer Error

I recently updated my laptop's windows 10 system and now am unable to watch video on Youtube.  

After a few seconds I'm getting a grey noisy screen and a banner: audio render error. Please restart your computer.

I have restarted and it doesn't fix the problem.

I've tried disabling and reenabling the sound drivers and that doesn't help either.  

Help!

I've also ran the audio troubleshooter.  It doesn't help. 

I don't use headphones.

What audio is in the laptop? Realtek? If so, try installing the latest Realtek driver, see if that helps.

Latest Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs

So I complete removed all the audio drivers from the laptop…and now it works…go figure.

Did you reboot afterwards. Most likely Windows found and installed a driver and for some reason it now worked. Look at Device Manager, sound.

Yep, and the drivers all reappeared. I'm guessing the old drivers were corrupted in the Windows 10 update and removing them forced the reinstallation of "clean" drivers.  

Thanks

Whatever did it, hoorah!!!! Glad it's working.