How can I flash a video card BIOS?

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/34 Instructions on how to flash video card BIOSes for both NVIDIA and ATI cards.

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ATI Cards:

These instructions apply to both atiflash and flashrom, command-line syntax is the same. When using flashrom replace "atiflash" by "flashrom".

• Download the BIOS file (ATI Bios collection here) and put it on a bootable floppy/usb stick/CD. Check bootdisk.com on how to get a boot disk.The ATI Bios collection has a new feature which serves you a bootable floppy image or bootable iso CD image with the bios you want on it. Click on "Advanced" when in the Bios list.
  
  
• Download an ATI flashing utility and put it on this disk too.
  
  
• Reboot your computer with the boot disk and run atiflash -s 0 oldbios.bin to save your old bios just in case you might need it at a later time.
• Now run atiflash -p 0 newbios.bin Replace newbios.bin with the filename of the downloaded bios file.
• If you are trying to flash a bios for a different card then you will get a security warning that the bios does not match your card. If you are absolutely sure that the bios is compatible you can use the -f parameter to force flashing. For example atiflash -f -p 0 bios.bin
• Reboot your computer
• Done

NVIDIA Cards:

• Download the BIOS file and put it on a boot disk. Check bootdisk.com on how to get a boot disk.
• Download nvflash (v4.41) and put it on this disk too.
• Reboot your computer with the start diskette and run nvflash -b oldbios.bin to save your old bios just in case you might need it at a later time.
• Now run nvflash -f newbios.bin Replace newbios.bin with the filename of the downloaded bios file.
  
  
• If you are trying to flash a bios for a different card then you will get a security warning that the bios does not match your card. If you are absolutely sure that the bios is compatible you can use the -p and -u parameters to force flashing. For example nvflash -p -u -f bios.bin
• Reboot your computer
• Done

How to recover from a bad BIOS flash:

Use an old PCI card to boot your system while your AGP card with the corrupted BIOS is still installed. Your system should initialize the PCI card first. If this does not happen, remove the AGP card and turn the computer on with only the PCI card, go to your BIOS Setup and change the "Init Display First" option to "PCI". Now reinstall the AGP card. Your system should boot normally with the PCI card as primary display adapter. You can now re-flash the corrupted BIOS or use another one. Make sure you are flashing the right card by using the -i (ati) or -a (nvidia) command line option.