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19 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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16 years ago

I had the same problems with ByteblaserMV and WinXPSP3 with parallel prot on a PCI-Card.

First the ByteblasterMV was not showing up in hardware.

--> change port to LPT1 (including activating an option for lecay-support on the PCI-card.)

Then the problem showed up with "Kernel mode driver not installed".

--> I installed the driver for the byteblaster before .. so i installed it again.

http://www.altera.com/support/software/drivers/dri-bb-xp.html

This solved the problem for me.