That's exactly what my thought was, how is anything in the MB bios going to alter the pipes on the VC?

A 6600 bios might be nice to try if I could find one. I wonder though, what would be the effect of flashing it with the bios from a different company? Maybe even flashing it with the bios from another 6200 that easily unlocks the pipes?

The funny thing, is this card is in my junk/test system along with a s754 2800+ sempron that I've been too busy screwing with the video to even try and see what I can pull out of the sempron.