Think i know what it is...
Not graphics cards or MoBo's but video codecs...
The day when i tried running the game again, I had installed the K-lite video codecs because a few movies i wanted to watch weren't playing. Later that day ran the game and it got past the codemasters screen and the split second of sound.
Just make sure that when you install the K-lite pack that you restart the computer when it says to.