OT: Very strange computer crash
I was busy playing a game on my new computer, and suddenly the monitor just shut down on me. It was as if it wasn't receiving any input from the CPU. All cables were snug, I hadn't touched anything other than the mouse and keyboard recently, and the computer hadn't shut down or anything. But the monitor acted like sleep mode had been activated, only nothing I could do brought it out of it. Clicking the mouse, pressing escape, backspace, alt-ctrl-del, nothing worked. So I had to shut down the computer, then restart. After that, the monitor has been working just fine. But I unfortunately lost a large list of items I had been compiling and hadn't saved (of course!) and it was simply quite confusing.
Has anyone encountered something like this before, or have any suggestion as to what may have caused it? Computer specs are below:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor
1 GB RAM
Windows XP Home SP2
BFG nVidia 6600 GT OC video card
17" CRT monitor (nothing special about it)
Other associated peripherals (keyboard, mouse, speakers, printer, etc.)
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