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Honored ContributorJTAG information. I have had the 11.1SP2 driver on version 03/18/2011,2.08.14. I also installed version 2.4.16.0. Can try the newer one again but it didn't seem to help. I have "Altera USB-Blaster" under device manager as I have had since thursday at noon. What driver problem is there? I guess I do not understand how it can be listed under USB, ennumerated with a proper hardware ID, no problem code, and all and somehow its a diver issue. I guess since my choices are bad Altera driver or bad Altera software it could be the two "working" drivers I installed and both ennumerated the device. I do suppose that jtagconfig should actually return something if it finds a working driver. I guess I just don't get it. Well if you get me a working version number maybe I can get this working.
So far I feel cheated. I was told this item worked. That it worked with Windows 7 and to follow the instructions. This has eaten days of my life with no progress. If this is as good as Altera can do maybe I should have purchased a XilinX board as at least their free version is supported. I know in the realm of FPGA's this thing is cheap but if all I was recieving was a couple of flashing LEDS on a USB port I would bet I could have sourced it cheaper. AS IS this thing does not work as instructed. Will not work with the drivers that CAME WITH IT. Does not sign the drivers at least the old ones making them not work without disabling signature checking. If I have to buy the lisenced version to actually use it with my OS that is another expense making it worth less and less to me. I am usualy quite patient. I am usually more understanding of bad drivers but when I spend 90$ on a board I expect it to actually work. I don't expect days of its probably the driver but no one seems to have one that works for me. I don't expect the instructions to waste hours of my time going through a Lab to find that it won't work and I should have been working on a solution to why it won't detect my hardware. I find it horrifying that the newest versions drivers would not work. That somehow a buisness can not even make a proper driver for a development board that they make the chips and software for. This seems like a really bad company if this is as good as they get. I didn't expect plug and play. Not even a little. I expected locating the drivers by hand, installing them by hand and then having it work. Not locating them, installing them, finding different ones, hoping, try again, repeat till ready to explode with no location to actually source the drivers. I have to search the forum for a driver and hope it is one that works. Why not list older drivers at least then I can start at the top and work my way down till something works. As is I have no idea what versions there are and it seems unless I install all the old quartus software suites I will not have the drivers. This is poorly planned. I would argue Genius except the drivers refuse to work apparently. So trying different ones is a test of determination. DL install files, install, get driver, test, repeat. It is a waste of time. This takes an Inordinate amount of time for nothing that could not be done with a simple driver repository. Why would this be even partialy required is beyond me. Its almost like Altera's plan is to upset the customer until they would rather shelf an item then actually get it usable. I really hope that isn't the plan. Windows 7 is not new. 64 bit is even older. I really wish I had not paid for this. So far I pad for a unit, shipping and now I am paying with my time just for owning it. What is the point. No one seems to have a driver that works on mine. The helpful forum posts I do find say essentially Win7 does not work. Really wish that was on the manufacturers page and the retailers page. Something like Anyone with Windows 7 be advised drivers likely will not work, we do not allow driver downloads individually so it may be days if you are lucky to actually use this. We will not tell you what version of the software may work for your product. This is about the worst planned system I have come across yet. All I can do is see the occasional person saying it works, try it and find out that apparently that wasn't my problem. It is frustrating to hear that the drivers and software work with win7 64. The forum seems to disagree. I find nearlly 0 vista 32 and XP issues. Just Vista and 7 64 bit Blaster issues. This seems like a sign. It seems to me that Altera decided to stop upgrading after 64 bit OSes showed up. I know you didn't make this aweful situation. You have been helpful or at least have pointed me to more things to try. I am not unhappy with the forum just ALTERA as they apparently can not make working drivers I guess. It is either that or I am forced to pay for the full version of the software. Possibly that is the evil plan. Make the free software not work so people "upgrade" just to get the usability that should have come with the free version. Lets say for arguments sake that I set up everything on my windows XP box. Its 32 bit, current SP and all that noise. Now I have to get another IP lisence for my other computer. Once the FPGA is flashed its still worthless to me as it is still unusable on this computer where I intended to use it. The computer that is seutp for everything else. Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Altera\Quartus2_11.1sp2_Build_259\quartus\bin>jtagconfig.exe -n No JTAG hardware available C:\Altera\Quartus2_11.1sp2_Build_259\quartus\bin>
