After installation with ISO, and responding to "find new updates" the upgrade brought me up to 10586.14 with out additional KB3210677 needed.
And I agree that speed is much faster to upgrade because...

thanks RonCFL. The previous "upgrades" didn't have those options so I was uncomfortable with continuing.

so the iso image, after starting the install, gets to the point where it says "Install Windows 10 Pro" "Keep personal files and apps".

This is just an upgrade? right? it's not going to format or...

Thanks for the info spapakons. I'll download the iso and then install both the 10586 then kb3210677.

is this 10586 ISO and upgrade? not a full install?

I downloaded the update and when I run it I get the message "The update is not applicable to your computer"? Huh?
I made sure it was the x64 version. I'm currently at Build 10240, which is the...

I decided to uninstall and reinstall the latest M-Audio drivers and this appears to have resolved the issue. I should have done that before posting anything since I did that with Audacity. I'm still...

With what spapakons said I turned off my M-Audio device and started up Audacity. Here's what the Device Preference page looks like:
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As fireberd said, it's defaulting to Stereo Mix.
I then...

Thanks for trying firebird.

Understood. If I have my USB audio interface connected and turned on, I get the error launching Audacity and there are no devices available to select.
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If I turn of the audio interface I see...

@fireberd. I do have Stereo mix set as recording default. And this was working last week so I don't understand what changed.
48373 spapakons, I'm not sure I understand what you are suggesting....

A week ago I wasusing Audacity without any problems. Then midweek (Wed/Thursday) 11/11 or 11/12I launched Audacity and received the message "Error Initializing Audio.Could not find any audio devices....

I don't know which one did it. I ran them both. I did find this info, tried it and it worked

Reclaim disk space after imaging with imageUSB.

I have not had a BSOD in 6 days so I feel this issue has been resolved by removing mix manufacture memory and/or replacing video card.
I want to thank you both axe0 and essenbe for your help and...

yea it's weird. 36680 I've tried formating it different ways and I just can't restore. I guess I'll try what they are mention in that link

Yea. It's really nice so far with the new card. I've only...

Well I purchase the EVGA GeForce GT 740 Superclocked 4GB PCI-Express Video Card 04G-P4-3748-KR - Micro Center and installed it and I'm running with a GPU temp of 28C at idle. Big difference. And...

It looks like it. I'll let you know how it goes. And so far no BSOD :party:

I'm looking at this one EVGA GeForce GT 740 Superclocked 4GB PCI-Express Video Card 04G-P4-3748-KR - Micro Center
because 1) it has dual link dvi connections 2) about the same price as Amazon 3) I...

I rebooted and everything was much faster. something sucking memory. ;-)

I had just looked up another one that is similar before you posted. I have compared them yet because my system is responding so poorly....

any recommendations.

I didn't even think they might be backwards comparable. I was thinking so something simple like this.
EVGA GeForce GT 610 1GB DDR3 PCIe 2.0 x16 Video Card 01G-P3-2616-KR - Micro Center

It's a Cooler Master Sileo 500 Silent ATX Case. Cooler Master: Sileo 500
I bought it for the

Sound-proof design for a quiet computing experience

with the idea of a "music studio"

Your right, that one in the back brings air out. There is no place that I can see to install fans to bring air in. I don't know why it's called a Cooler Master if it doesn't cool very well.
Lessons...

I have 3 fans. One in the case bringing in air from the back. 1 on the PSU and 1 on the CPU. I'm limited on the video card since the machine is old and PCIe 2.0. Since my video cards are only for...