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18 years ago

byteblaster not showing up in hardware

Hi, I need help with my maxII eval board. When I go to program and verify, the byteblaster does not show up. I have a pci-parallel card in my dell computer and I have added that hardware to my ...
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17 years ago

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?