KRimminal

I really don't wanna jynx it but I think dumb luck strikes again.
At about 5 am I realized that the computer had remained plugged in the same socket all this month. Just to exhaust every possible angle, I said I might as well try using the socket across the room. So I took the laptop, put it on my bed (network cable attached) and tried plugging it in. Of course, it froze.
By now, my brain was getting crazy ideas from no sleep and I realize that in every post that i googled, everybody kept saying how many things were plugged in / unplugged from their computer when it froze. So i unplugged the only thing other than the AC that was in: the network cable :|
Plugged the AC, and it didn't freeze. I didn't believe it at first so i tried moving it around, closing the lid, nothing happened. System was working fine.
Granted, I now remember one solitary instance when I unplugged the network cable to untangle it and computer froze when i put it back in (I'm tired of typing "plug"), but being that it only happened that one time, I just wrote it off as an accidental shaking of that laptop that led to freezing.
So now I switched sides of the cable and switched the port and I'm happily writing to you from bed, with the laptop on my lap, something I haven't been able to do in a long while.

Don't get me wrong, I'm really counting my blessings here, but, do you guys have any idea why the faulty cable / port could have manifested itself in such a weird way !?

Luckily for me this thing got rezolved (well, I'm hoping nothing bad happens, it's still a bit early to tell, but for now it really seems to be "cured") because warranty expired ~ 1 year ago ;)

Thanks for suggestions guys !