Photoshop CS3 Extended - freezes after few minutes

Greetings.
Ive recently decided to give Photoshop CS3 a try. However, i am experiencing urecoverable crashes (Windows freezes, have to restart the pc) when performing various actions. It seems to be happening only when something is going on in/with the document window, or when any modifications are made to the opened image. Using menus and other interface elements doesnt seem to cause any problems. The crashes usually happen a few minutes after the software has loaded.
Specifications:
Intel Core2Duo 3,16GHz
2GB RAM
GF 8800GTS
WindowsXP SP2
All latest drivers

>i'm not sure what you mean when you say "crashes". is it locking up? ending or what? just photoshop or your whole system?
As already said, the display freezes and the whole system becomes unresponsive. I can see the mouse and everything that was on screen prior to crash, but i cannot do anything.
>you mean the whole system is frozen? NOTHING else works?
Indeed.
>If you computer is locking up to the point that your mouse does not move then you are simply having hardware issues or driver issues on a low level. It may only happen when using PS, but that is simply because PS is asking something of your system that the other programs don't.
Then it seems it would be best to ask on nvidia/graphic card specific forums.
I have also downloaded Photoshop CS2, same thing as with CS3. I am going to try CS1 as well, but im guessing it will be the same. Photoshop 7.0 works without any problems.
In any case, thank you for your time.

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