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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

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.