Hey, The Duck how is it goin mate?......have a nice weekend, really untypical British weather here: damn hot and sunny
I'm alright, I'm still lurking and creeping around . I've been really busy, working 5 days a week (sometimes 6) at an auto shop. I quit my IT job (various reasons) and I'm now doing auto maintenance and freelance SOHO IT work... Only temporarily until I find another IT job...

Back to the topic at hand; I wasn't going against your advice or anything, I was just responding to this:
What I don't know is how this unused system would react if it were effectively underclocked?
And making sure he knows that if he starts messing with the system clock he's gonna have to make sure he keeps everything else the same by messing with the multipliers and dividers of each bus... Which in the end could cause more problems at this point......?

But IMHO, I don't think messing with the system clock is necessary, seeing how he's really not getting a black screen at start up...