byteblaster not showing up in hardware

I regret to tell that based on my experience I was not able to resolve the problem You described either.

Indeed, I have tried to install the BYTE-Blaster on Parallel Port installed on a PCI card (since my motherboard LPT1 was used by a software dongle) and I could not get it to work.

Since I did not have time to spent on troubleshooting this problem, the only solution that I found was to purchase a USB Blaster: I know that this is quite of an amount of money to be spent if You are not going to use it frequently, but the USB-Blaster has several advantages compare to the BYTE-Blaster.

I hope that someone will be able to provide You with the possible solution.

Hi,

I also had problems with the Downloadcables.

I solved the problem by installing the jtagserver manually.

In the quartus bin directory there is located a executable named "jtagserver.exe".

You can try calling this executable with "jtagserver --status". There should be displayed Server is running.

If the jtagserver isn't running, you need administrator rights to install the jtagserver.

For this you have to log in as administrator and type "jtagserver --install". Make sure, that the executable isn't called from a network or substituded drive. Only local harddisks are allowed because when the jtagserver starts no mounts are connected at this time.

I hope this solves the problem.

Usb blaster works fine on xp,

but not on win 2000, this is maybe your case.

Thanks all for the replys,

ecm, I checked the jtagserver --status and it said server is running, and it's from my local c drive. I might have to go the usb route. unless u have more suggestions?

Thanks again,

Elliot

Hi Elliot,

maybe a other driver is in conflict with the ByteBlaster driver.

Try to check the non PnP drivers in your installation.

I don't know the exact names of an english windows installation, because I have a german windows. But I try to explain how you can look at the non pnp-Devices.

You have to open the computer management console where you can see all devices which are installed on your computer. You have to open the device manager and then you have to view the hidden/suppresed/out faded/non PnP devices (in the menubar where you can choose "file / action / view / window / ?" (Hope this are the english names) in the view menue)

The you can see "non PnP driver" which are installed onto your computer. there should be the Altera ByteBlaster.

If there are more then one Altera driver, try to remove then and reinstall only the needed driver.

Hope this helps.

Hi ecm,

I finally got it working, thanks for the advice. When I went into the device manager window, my pci parallel card was on LPT3 and I changed that to LPT1. Then the byteblaster showed up in the hardware list, but it said something about a missing kernel, so then I added the byteblaster driver again and also a .dll file that it needed and then opened up quartus again and finally I could add it and use it to program the device.

Thanks,

Elliot

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Hi ecm,

I finally got it working, thanks for the advice. When I went into the device manager window, my pci parallel card was on LPT3 and I changed that to LPT1. Then the byteblaster showed up in the hardware list, but it said something about a missing kernel, so then I added the byteblaster driver again and also a .dll file that it needed and then opened up quartus again and finally I could add it and use it to program the device.

Thanks,

Elliot

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Hi, I know this is not a new thread, but I have the same problem,

I already changed LPT3 to LPT1, and reinstall the drivers but it's still not working, keep giving the same kernel error,

what else could be??

by the way which *.dll file is missing?

You should tell the exact error message, I think the error is rather rare. (I've been using Byteblaster at a lot of computers, also my customers, but I never saw this error).

If no forum member can help, you should send a service request to Altera support, cause only Altera software devlopers can know for sure, what the error message means respectively under which circumstances it may occur at all.

Same problem using Quartus II (V 8.0); I tried to install the BYTE-Blaster on Parallel Port installed on a PCI card (EX-41011) as my motherboard does not have any LPT port.

As mentioned in post# 7 &# 8, I changed defult LPT3 setting to LPT1, doing so, the byteblaster showed up in the hardware list, but with the message "kernel mode driver not installed".

As mentioned in post# 7, I also tried to add the byteblaster driver without any real changes. As post# 8, the only point I cannot figure out is which .dll had elliotmercer (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/member.php?u=1978) added? Is this the only missing point? If yes, is it possible to get this xxx.dll somewhere?

Finally I read a lot of post on other websites and it seems to me that the point is that the programmer seems to look on legacy parallel port only (on "default" 0378 - 037F I/O range). If this is really the case, and as I cannot change the I/O range of my parallel pci card, will it be possible to tell the programmer to search the parallel port on other I/O range?

I want to contradict some of the considerations. I'm generally using USB-Blaster, but I also have several ByteBlaster MV and ByteBlaster II in use. On a desktop computer, they are using a PCI printer interface (with Netmos chip) and a non-legacy address.

The ByteBlaster specific drivers are pgdhdlc.sys (V4.0) and pgdhdlc.dll (V3.51), as shipped with Quartus V5.1 (at least) to V7.2.