aaronN42, you never answered the questions I asked about the procedures you followed after you formatted and installed Windows XP again. I really suspect you've not installed the necessary device drivers for your system.

Have a read through the pair of articles linked here:

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread6632.html

and see if that sounds like the way you approached reinstalling Windows and your system's necessary software drivers. If not, your computer hardware is most likely not working correctly, and that would lead to all sorts of problems!

sorry about that.. well.. this computer i built.. and i have all the drivers.. like the cd to install all the drivers.. i installed every single one back.. and everything else works fine.. just this photoshop freezees my computer..