Does your motherboard boot from USB flash device?

Please advise by posting any mobo that has USB Flash boot option.\
Thanks in advance!!

Mine says it can boot flash drives in the BIOS and it is a boot option, etc. However every flash drive I've tried has failed to boot on mine (and they boot on other people's computers). I've actually come across a few motherboards like this.

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