Freezing Problem

I am not really expecting anyone to know what is wrong or be able to help me.  It is probably a hardware problem.  I don't know.  However, I am really frustrated.  Everyone once in awhile after spending a long time editing an image my Photoshop program freezes right when I go to File and Save As.  As soon as I select the save option nothing happens.  It just freezes forever.  If I look at the Task Manager it says that Photoshop is not responding.  I have tried just leaving it sitting forever and seeing if it comes back, it doesn't.  For some reason this happens on images I have spent a long time on.  I don't know if that is the reason or if it's just like how the buttered side of the bread always lands on the floor when dropped (you know, karma). 
If anyone has any ideas let me know, if not, oh well, I will just keep re-eding images over and over again.

Task manager click on performance and see what your processor is doing, if its close to 100% she ain't locked, she's busy. click on the processes tab and find the process that is using up all of your processor and write it down to google later. then try to kill it.

if your photoshop scratch disk is the same physical drive as your destination it can really bog down saving a big image.

I stopped using PhotoShop's Bridge because it was always freezing my computer. I don't have enough RAM on my computer, so freezings are quite common for me, even when not using Bridge. How much RAM do you have? Before buying CS3, make sure your computer isn't the culprit.

No, I don't think the RAM is the problem.  I should have plenty, it's a newer computer.  The thing is that the same program doesn't do that on my laptop that has less RAM and a much cheaper processor (a Celeron). 
It's got to be the computer, somehow since I don't experience the problem with the same program from the same disk with the same settings on the laptop. 
I just have no idea.  Perhaps there is some little glitch that re-installing will help. 

Ha! My nuclear med camera is hooked up to a mac and it freezes in the middle of blood flow studies sometimes.

Susie, did you reinstall yet?

I was just kidding around, easy now.

Did you check your scratch disc, make sure Photoshop is designated to it's own scratch disc.?

Is the computer new?
I had a similar incident with the p.c., I checked the mother board, there are some components that look like AA batteries, anyhow, I could see some were not normal looking, I hope it's not the board. If those go, pooched board. Sometimes motherboards can be defective.

I don't know.

Mike, my computer is not new however just recently my computer stopped working and one computer guy thought it was the motherboard, but another guy we took it to said it was the power supply, replaced the part for $100 and it works just fine.  So maybe there still is a problem with the motherboard, the freezing has been happening for awhile, but perhaps the motherboard has been "sick" for awhile too.

Good thing I back everything up.  Oh and I did check the scratch disk, I think it's set up right.

What are you calling a battery looking thing?  caps? if a cap is brown its past dead.

Susie, if you "don't know" what software is running on your pc, someone needs to look.

I'm not set up here but PM me a phone number Monday and I'll climb into your pc and look around. (when I get you on the phone)