New to Altera. Error on Downloading bitstream

Hi All,

I'm a new to Altera and I have a Cyclone II EP2C35 devkit. I wrote a small VHDL file which waits for one of the SW buttons and toggle a led. I made the pin assignements, synthesis, ....

When I try to download the bitstream into the FPGA, the Error led lights up and the board falls back to the default factory config. However, the messages pane says it has successfully downloaded the bitstream. I do not use SOPC builder. I just want to download my simple circuit into the FPGA.

Do you have any ideas. The starter kit manual did not help as it uses SOPC builder.

Another question : when I download the bitstream, the FPGA is immediately reconfigured right ? I mean, the binary is not put somewhere, and I have to do some operation to get it into the FPGA ?

Thanks