After trying everything from blind flashing to rigging up a serial eeprom flasher (neither worked) I bit the bullet and attempted a hot flash. I removed both eeprom chips from both the 6970m and the 7970m, installed the 6970m card into my dell, held the 6970m eeprom onto the solder pads, booted up the lappy, got into msdos, carefully swapped the 7970m eeprom onto the pads and used atiflash to program the Dell 7970m vBios onto the eeprom. Soldered both chips to their respective cards and BAM! Its working great! Hope this helps someone. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! I was lucky I didn't fry anything! Use flux and dont heat up the chip too much it will break!