You need:

A floppy, usb, or flash card

Atiflash: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2040/ATIFlash_3.89...
A videocard to have on-board with the radeon, OR, an on-board GPU

1.Eventually I was able to get in safe mode after removing the video card and running on the
on-board gpu. I had to repeatedly tap F8 during bootup to enter bios settings. I chose
Onboard as the primary video adapter and started windows.

2. I created a bootable Flash sd Card using the files here:

http://www.fw.hu/tnm/blog/bootable%20flash%20drive.rar
however I think you can do the same with a floppy or usb.

3. I downloaded atiflash from techpowerup.com and copied the exe. file onto the flash card.

4. I copied the backup file that was originally saved using Atiwinflash called bios.rom onto
the Sd card

5. Shut down the computer. Put my Radeon 6950 Back inside the case and plugged it in.
Booted and held ESC to go to Boot menu. Booted from SD Flash card

6. typed: atiflash -i to see which card was which # (which was 0 in this case)

7. typed atiflash -unlockrom 0 . Message should have appeared saying ROM UNLOCKED.

8. typed: atiflash -f -p 0 bios.rom (or whatever the name of your .rom or .bin file that was
saved)
Should say new rom loaded or something like that.

9. Restarted computer into bios. chose pci-e port as primary video adapter.

10. Restarted again, plugged monitor into R6950. Felt like a genius WHOOOOT!