Computer screen went blank and all work has lost.

[onder]

Hi,

While I was working on a document suddenly computer screen went blank. Than only one sec later came back and I lost my all typings I did so far. It was Word document and I cant recover it. Any body knows what migh caused this problem? By the way computer didnt rebooted, machine was working.

Thanks

[ChrisC]

Can't be sure, but this does nicely lead on to the teaching of save your work regularly so you don't loose too much if the worst happens!

Chris

[Joanne]

lesson: never trust computers!

[onder]

I know that "never trust machine". But my question was whether any of you have an idea what causes this problem.

Thanks

[ChrisC]

could have been a mini power surge?
Some sort of hardware/software/driver failure that the machine auto-recovered from, but had to shut down the apps?

Chris

[onder]

The machine was on and hasnt shut down. This makes it strange. At the moment I m not interested in to recover data. I am trying to find reason caused this problem. COMPUTER WAS ON.

[mrtechsystems]

As for the recovery of the document I have found in the directory where the file was check to see if there is a .files in and open them up in Word you might be lucky and find it

As for the Blank screen

Check the event log on the machine

[onder]

Thanks for your reply mrtechsystems. I tried to recover file from temp directory. But wasnt succeed. Nevermind. I have checked Event log and found only one warning : MRxSmb. I dont thint that is relavant.

Thanks