i have got a 2.71 psp its not the ta-82 motherboard,i found the easy downgrader at http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/755/, it seems to good to be true, any help would be great

http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/about17935.html, this cleared up my confusion.

the downgrader worked out great, then i used the easy 3.03 oe easy flasher.
im Very happy with it.
my pc skills are about noob to moderate, so it was pretty much easy.

you should upgrade to 3.10 OE-A
thats what im using.

I used it and it worked. I had:
1.50-->1.51-->2.00-->1.50-->(Half-Bricked, long story)-->(New Mobo)-->2.60-->2.71-->1.50-->1.00-->3.02OE B
If it is on http://psp-hacks.com it has been tested. After a string of "viruses" started circulating around the time of 2.00, PSP-Hacks was more careful about what was up for download.

i would but is it easy, i like the walkthrough approach of 3.03 oe, im kinda noob

The easiest way to get to 3.10 oe-a is to use recovery mode...it seems like it takes a while/is hard, but it is really easy

This is how you do it:

1) Download this file located HERE
It is the folder used for the recovery option in recovery mode

2)Next download Dark_Alex's 3.10 OE-A
And the 1.5 Sony Update EBOOT
And the 3.10 Sony Update EBOOT

3)Next unrar the folders oeupmaker and oeupmaker% from the root folder to the GAME folder on your Memory Stick (X:\PSP\GAME)(X being your psp's drive letter)

4)Navigate to X:\PSP\GAME\oeupmaker\ (where X is your PSP's drive letter). Rename the 1.50 Update Eboot to 150.PBP and copy it to the oeupmaker folder. Rename the 3.10 Update Eboot to 310.PBP and copy it to the oeupmaker folder. (Make sure you put it in "oeupmaker" not "oeupmaker%")

5)Now on your psp go to Game>Memory Stick> and run OE UpdateMaker.

6)Once it finishes connect your psp back into your computer and take the file called "DATA.PSAR" (located at PSP/GAME/OEUPDATEMAKER)

7)Boot into Recovery mode and toggle the USB (will be the first option)

8)Put the file that we downloaded in step one into X:\PSP\GAME\ (X being your psp's drive letter)

9)Put the DATA.PSAR that was made in step 5 into the Recovery folder we put in X:\PSP\GAME in the previous step

10)Exit USB and Select "Run program at /PSP/GAME/RECOVERY/EBOOT.PBP"

congratulations you should now be at 3.10 OE-A (If you did everything right)

thank you for the easy step by step. ill give it a go this weekend.