PCIe on Stratix IV

Thanks for the reply Dave. Your help is greatly appreciated.

I am using Terasic Altera DE4 Development and education board - the 230K version.The voltages are present through power on.

By hard reset i mean, the board itself is restarted not just the PCIe system.I have still not been able to figure that out.

Meanwhile,I was able to generate a flash file from the sof.( Although at the end it gives a memory malformed error, I wanted to test with the flash file it produced)I was also able to successfully flash the CFI Flash following the procedures of the manual. But upon reset, the board is not being configured from the flash or atleast with the desired flash. I have been looking all over the internet to find some configuration settings for the board(some jumper or dial settings) but could not find them. They are not given in the user manual or the kit. I however found similar info for DE4 development board (530K), which has a rotary switch to select between the factory flash pages and user flash pages.Maybe something similar is preset for this board too, still in the pursuit of that.

The flash procedure is still not without errors and configuration settings are still amiss.Would you have any info in this direction.