Crop tool question

Hi, I have a small issue which I can not find the answer too. I search the PS help system with no luck. I use the basic tools in PS to edit some product images here at work. Basically all I do is crop, resize, adjust contrast/brightness, and so forth.
Usually when cropping images I use the crop tool, select the area I want saved, then hit enter and everything else outside the drop boundaries is cropped away. Yesterday I noticed that when I click the crop tool button, then drag my cursor around the product and hit enter, everything disappears except a tiny dot the color of my background. Well when I say background, I mean if I take the photo of the product on a brown fabric background, then the color of the few pixels that remain are that same brown. But NO image at all of the subject. As far as I know, I didn't intentionally change any of the settings for the crop tool, but something has changed and I cant figure out how to restore it to the original setting. Hope someone cant help. Thanks in advance!

Clear out the fields in the Options area when using the Crop Tool.  Sounds like you've typed something in the Width, Height, or Resolution fields, and it's invoking the Crop Tool's resizing behavior.
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