A walk wid ma lappy...

My latest literary work is one of my responses to an issue on the toshiba forum

(be advised i am a geek lol)

Re: Satellite A205-S5800 freezes when AC power cord is connected

06-17-2010 12:42 PM

Be Advised: I HAVENT SOLVED THE PROBLEM YET!

but here are steps i have covered...
firstly i didnt realise my problem was connected with the power cord at all...
cos when the problem first started it looked less connected to ac power issue...
THE START
my problems started when i bought an external keyboard for my laptop A205
the keyboard was a sahara key board(rest bla bla bla)
first occurrences of the fault was when i try to connect this USB heyboard to my laptop
the laptop started freezing within minutes of my doing this and occassionally or most of the time this used to happen when i left my computer idle for a few minutes....
THE MORPHOSIS
then my computer started occasionally freezing up even without this external USB device being plugged in... my first thoughts were that probably a virus has been planted in my usb keyboard and somehow it manged its way into my antivirus-less, well guarded computer.....
THE CHASE BEGINS
So now that viruses were the issue(or i thought so) i began trying various antiviruses (not all at once but genuinely tried many free antiviruses of reputation) but that seemed not to solve the issue at all [,still i wasnt aware of the connection between the ac plugs and this freeze]
FURTHER DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
Trying to be geekish and all I now thought this might be a driver issue or OS one either ways i thought i would be able to solve this problem by using the privalged "Recovery" disc...
THE PLOT THICKENS
At this point i have to use the ac adapter for a long amount of time .... The inevitable happens my system freezes in the middle of the entire process... and i have no clue as to what is happening.... So i go ahead and try various options of OS i had in my hand Vista, XP and 98
Ubuntu, Open Suse, Fedora and a few more.... I tried in various combinations of power plug connection though never even once did i try a whole installation without the power plug(cos i have a six cell 3 year old battery)....
THE RELEVATION MOMENT
i have been trying this for a couple of months when i decided to take this issue and put it in my friend's hand. So during a lunch break at work we decide to install my recovery disc thing sitting in my car and that time i had to do the whole installation from my car... we were expecting to see my fan quit working or my system overheating... but the system finished the installation fully(I was wrong to assume my battery was a traitor)! now the logical conclusion was that this has been an error associated with my power cable...
THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR
Now i knew that it was an ac cable issue i checked for BIOS updates (still not dismissing the software issue)... but that seemed not to help me much cos there never was an update.... I tried drivers previously so that cudnt have been the issue too...then i had tried OS too but i had tried that too...
THE DREADED NEWS
so now it had to be hardware.... the issue occurs before the OS is loaded... but after the POST of the BIOS... If the BIOS is fine then something skips the POST...
my doubt was if it was the particular charger i had been using... but i tried other toshiba chargers same specs still same freeze result ensued...
then my worries was about my battery but i tried running the computer without my battery too... still no use
then i tried power handling thru "advanced power settings" but that too didnt give any relief to the issue
Then i really began re thinking about my fan... found that to be stupid....
next was mebbe a dust issue cos i was a regular smoker thruout the life of my laptop(working normally)
i thought mebbe the dust has settled on some energy storage elements(capacitors/inducturs etc) and that was affecting the power handling... this is with my Micro processor knowledge of an "8 bit" processor...
SHERLOCK HOMES MOMENTS
i thought mebbe the power reaching the processor was not enuf to run the processor... something like- power reaches the board to supply the board and LCD... the board supply then is used to charge the battery and run the processor ... when this splitting occurs i thought mebbe the processor gets insufficient power... but that didnt "seem" so when i checked with mi DMM... none of the components seemed to be burnt nor blown....

and then i came across a material about Core2duo processors.... and how their NMI(Non maskable interrupt ) works.... i am not sure but my guesses go in that direction... the processor or a power handling chip lying close to the core2duo processor (electronically speaking) might be sending an NMI signal to the processor....
THE DUMB AND DUMBER MOMENT
Can someone explain how the power handling is done on a core2 duo processor and then i think we cud solve this problem

Rhythms of nature and of man

Rhythms of nature
they are
When people write
in verses few

they follow no rules
no rhymes nor meters
from start to the finish
like a fluid they flow


Rhythms of man
they are math themsleves
sometimes it feels like afghan
havent u felt that urselves

when u jot down a thing
felt those disturbing shackles?
loosen the rhymes that cling
and loosen those ankles

Consequences

live today like no tomorrow
nothing to repent
nor to bury in sorrow
thinkin of all that's happened

heed the sayin oh young ones
blood is only gud within the veins
once spilt it simply runs
and then it pauses and just thickens

The Slayer Scribe!!!

i took a simple pen
swung a single stroke
fell a many million men
arre himmath hai to mujhe rokh!!!

stop me if u can
the tsunami's grudge or
the river's flow if u can
if not then bow, bulao mujhe Badshah!!!

cried i have thus a million times
and million souls have fallen too
to cry i have a million more rhymes
but have you got enough souls to shed a few?

if not then why not
get all you have got
and scamper like pigs
or i ll crush u like twigs!!!"

Hug you!!!

In dreams have i seen it dear
Of pain in ephemeral forms
None that lasted, none that tasted
beyond the saltiness of blood

About pains that drill the mind
I have been so immune or not
Who does know for with what eyes,
Can pain be measured?...

Broken bones u may diagnose
But soul wrenching aches how can you ever?
If felt within the core
There is no way u can show...

Of heyna's laugh u may accuse
When i cover my own grief
Am I to live my life and laugh
with a sense of trepidation

A state of fear ensues
For with every of ur action
I am at loss, in doubts consumed
What is ur white what makes ur blue

I have no stories to tell u
When i put u to sleep
I have no more words to allay u
I have been all used up

Consumed within a fire it feels
The pain still bearable
Because, because i know
You have suffered more

But how do i know?
Of ignorance, u may blame me
Of stupidity, u may my dear
But of fecklessness never do

I tried, I try and I will
Forever and more if it be
But do not blame me dear
Of being indifferent and uncaring

Cos if i have a name, it is for u
If i have a dream it just for u
If i am here it just cos
I wanted to give u a hug

To wake you from ur pain
That the lotus eater had fed u
No I am no God, but i could be
Your oasis, solace to a parched throat

A shade on the road under the hot sun
The shelter in a rain, one monsoon
The blanket on your body a winter
Just hugging you, chanting "Allay Allay!!"

Her Panacea...

I know that her grief is beyond repair
But I do at times wistfully wish
When her eyelashes unfurl in despair
That her love take rebirth in a swish

And let him be balm to her aching heart
Panacea, i wish, his name comes to be
He should home her, in a quart of his heart
White a horse nor a sceptre need he have

If this be you, mate, i ll show you her house
Take you to her door, ring the bell for you
Build a chat for you, and leave her your spouse
But this be my threat, a tear drop or few

Consequences will you face my dear
For every drop she sheds u have got to fear

a pitiful farewell to my nightingale

i have pain in my eyes
when i sit to write this
no tears nor a melting heart of ice
just a feeling of something amiss

a silent soul i remained
but tortured was i
when i have not entertained-
friction, then why?

when she packed her stuff
and prepared to so leave
why were u rough
making her to grieve

and when i sit here alone
grieving of wats different today
i might turn to stone
before wats fair, bridges delay

Fuck em rules
and them their makers
cos no heart those fools-
ever had those fakers

when silent i remained
and let u run things
peace u must have regained
but where is FAIR about whom everyone sings

to clap its said
two hands but they need
why is it so made
that mine is bound and the rest all freed

why is it that i am deprived
of my right to be, in times of her need
or have u forgotten poets when this far u 've arrived
that a friend in need is a friend indeed

but then a law abiding citizen
i will suffocatedly remain
but ashamed i am to be clubbed among men
even under the most dubious of domain

Friends

humans, they made
as the devil bade
from all dark and black,
a paper, so hatred filled
and then they named it "green"

thru where this paper went
tears prevailed
and blood spilled out
wars were fought
for reasons that rot

so up in the heavens
God decided he would
have a currency his own
by which he d measure happiness
a yardstick for peace and all gudness

and thats what we call
friends my dear
the currencies of happiness
and that must be why
sadness is bound to lonliness!!!

Innocent Chirp

but, i like it when
little kids they burp
cos it is then
an innocent chirp

the truth rhyme

bitter bitter truths they say
now i wonder how u taste
never upon my tongue u stay
even within my sleepy state...

must replace twinkle twinkle little star...

Absence of Mystery

the mask that i always wear
in front of my own face
its nice that u d tear
my history, just to trace...

but mysteries untold
and stories to unfold
never will they ur quest but grace
cos i made my mask out of my face

Sigh___!

loan me a lovely name
that i may call you little dame
in love that i may use
or to sigh when i simply muse

Oggling at Google...

Did u but know
The Google that we know
Is far more complicated
Than we were educated...

For example
Take this as a sample
There were specific text operators
For those search field operators

Like results of date:6
Would be pages within the last months six
Of any query you type
Now I ll show you how to get a specific file type

Simply enter Filetype:pdf
And you will get Adobe Acrobat reader file of
The queries you typed along with it
Now wont that trick, in your brain neatly fit

Did you know that Google had a translator
And a very wonderful calculator
Check for the first to translate
And the second, so your problems you can narrate

Type in your mathematical problem
And press the search to vanish all your problem
And it can easily convert
and your tensions so easily divert

With yet another host of tools
Does google toolbar come for fools
It has a search thats easy and quicker
And a more simpler address bar browser

it has autofill, autolink and sendto options
highlights and search terms to help ur intentions
ur toolbar can be configured
and very well be reconfigured

to assist u furthermore in ur search
google provides for a speciality search
where u decide ur search type
ie web images video news maps and a many more twenty type

and most of these can be customized further
so u can make a search go deeper and quicker
Google lets u oggle at maps and
Track area codes packages addresses and phone listings in a second

i lied for the rhyme
mebbe it takes a bit more of time
and then whenever u have a doubt
or in the centre of an argumental bout

just type in your question
and it will return with its suggestion
and if all u need is eternal wisdom
type it and surf in it with all freedom

U may use Google advance product search
if , say u need a particular mulch
u can design the product search
and get ur favorite mulch

and then manage accounts
using Google Checkouts
Now this all about google browsing
i wish u all a happy google surfing...

questionable truths...

poetic eye or heretic i
didnt see the fishes cry
but i think it is why
that the seas are salty..

Birth-Mornings

fresher am i born
evryday at dawn...
that is why i asked u
to bid me adieu...

of memories past
i have no images that last
cos every night i die
so in the morning i may fly

For Emmah Frost

sealed and frosted ur lips remained
when u, came by this lane, oh lovely one
honoured i would be, i just remind
if u had scribbled a couplet and joined, just for fun

Of Sleep and Her Nocturnal Trysts

Men did though try to enslave Sleep once
But soon enuf she shut all of their eyes
When they did it again she let them have it oh hons...
Fishes they turned and seas were full of salt from painful fishy cries...

adieu

now i ll lightly row
and gently go
cos dad is comin
and i better be sleepin

pls do not disturb II

very sleepy am i
with droopy an eye
struggling with the other
i type a lot of error

forgive me my dear
its just Sleep getting here
and tonight too as i sleep
at the door dont disturb i ll keep

pls do not disturb

if death comes fast tonight
upon me as i drunkenly lie
wake me not
and let me dream

of angels and pleasures
of riches and treasures
more than any measures
relieving tensions and pressures

cos when the mornin ray
hits my sleepy soul
if i still be awake in this world
i ll kill u if u disturb me...!!!

A Scandalous Night-- The 'A Mistress'
a treacherous night
hath passed indeed
and tracks that were
laid in the darkness of the night
have revealed themselves in open light

thru labyrinths of guilt
when i did have to walk
groping in darkness
trembling under my quilt
where were u oh saviour! turned to immovable silt???

was my voice too weak
that u didnt hear me cry
is it cos i thrilled u no more
or has something within me begun to reek
or have i lost a lusture that u once did seek?

where were u
when they had me stoned
when mistakes together we had made
why is it that u now say adieu
oh i now know why bees only hum near roses new