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Ever wonder if you can flash your pc's bios with a PSP?

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Well, you can. At least, you can if you are running a gigabye ep43-ud3l mobo. I posted a thread on here previously about having touble flashing. After trying multilbe methods, I finall took a leap of faith. I grabbed my psp, formatted the mem stick to fat32, loaded the psp with the bios update ONLY, and updated in q-flash. Please note that I do have custom firmware installed on my psp, although I dont think that it makes a lick of difference, seeing as you can use the psp as a "removable disc" regardless. I would be curious to know if this can be done on other mobo makes and models as well. Happy flashing!!!!

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I'm thinking it's possible, if you can get the BIOS to recognize the PSP as a flash drive containing the update?

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The question is, why would you want to? LOL!

Most people have at least one RAM/thumb drive laying around and the smallest ones will hold dozens of BIOS versions. If your system will recognize removable drives in BIOS, it'll load BIOS from a thumb drive.

My Epson printer will take a variety of small memory cards and use them as drives to store pictures. I imagine it could be set up to upload BIOS too.

Never seen a psp myself, is the mem stick you mention a thumb drive or a memory card?

Anyway, I'd avoid anything fancy on BIOS updates. KISS is the word.

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