My friend has a problem with his computer when playing games. When loading games it would start up and just before the start screen it would go straight back to desktop with no sign of the game. Some games he can load up but they have no sound (works normal apart from games) I have looked at the graphic card settings and they seem ok. I am not really an expert though but the games have worked in the past and his computer is new. His using: Pentium 4 Windows XP Nivida GeForce FX5200 About 150GB RAM 3.2 Mhz DirectX 9 Can anyone help?

I will just jump in and ask you the first thing that 99% of people here will ask you.... have you updated ALL your drivers? Sounds like a sound card error by your post, if it's on board sound then go to your motherboard manufacturers website a get the latest drivers for everything related. Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 @ 2450 Athlon 64 3500+ Dual - Corsair TwinX CMX512-3200XL Gecube X800 XT Platinum Seagate 200 Gig Coolermaster Wavemaster Silver

Yes he updated the graphic drivers. Would the sound card effect a game coming on and if it is the sound card why does the rest of the pc applications work with sound?

You say he updated the graphics drivers, what about chipset, soundcard, ide and any ohter drivers that can be updated, any one of these could cause a fatal conflict and cause games to fail. Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 @ 2450 Athlon 64 3500+ Dual - Corsair TwinX CMX512-3200XL Gecube X800 XT Platinum Seagate 200 Gig Coolermaster Wavemaster Silver

What's "About 150GB RAM"? Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8 x 210MHz 512MB PC3200 Asus Ti4200 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro

150GB of RAM? Is that possible? Your friend must have a supercomputer or something. Sure that's not the hard drive size?

I made a mistake 150GB Hard Drive and 512MB RAM. One game doesnt come on just the intro then goes to desktop and the other has no sound.