Photoshop CS5 crashes only minutes after loading up

Question

My dad just recently purchased Adobe Photoshop CS5 for me, and I installed it about 2 days ago. I installed the program 3 times without any different results. After loading up, it runs fine, I'm able to do a little sketch. However, after about 5 minutes, the program stops responding, and then proceeds to close itself out, losing the small amount of work I managed to accomplish before it crashed. I can't get any real work done in it, and even after restarting, defragging,reinstalling, and updating PS CS5, it still crashes after only a short time. Does anyone have any idea what may be the problem? Or how to fix this?
I have Windows XP by the way, and it says it installed completely.

Answer 1

The exact location of Event Viewer might differ from Windows version, to another. I keep mine as an icon on my Desktop. On my XP-Pro, the Path is: C:\WINDOWS\system32\eventvwr.exe.
Here is a look at Event Viewer. I just happened to have had a few errors and warnings, so you can see what it all looks like. Let your dad see this, so he'll know what he's looking at, and looking for:
As for the specs., ask your dad to gather that info for you. The Control Panel>System>Hardware is one place to start, and also, if he goes to Run and types in "dxdiag.exe" without the " (quotation marks), there will be several tabbed screens, with a lot of that data.
Hope that this helps, and good luck,
Hunt