Stratix V GX Development Card: Board Test System cannot detect USB Blaster

RESOLVED!

The latest Stratix V development kit installer is v12.0.0.1. I found this worked with QII v12.0 (no service packs - although I didn't try any either).

Here are the modified steps:

jtagserver --status needs to show that the jtagserver is being launched from the 12.0 folder

QUARTUS_ROOTDIR environment variable needs to point to either c:\altera\12.0\quartus or c:\altera\12.0\qprogrammer (where qprogrammer is the folder used if you downloaded only the QII programmer and not the full installation)

I tried multiple versions of the Quartus II programmer (12.0 and 13.0) and they both configured the FPGA properly.

When I launched the BTS, the USB Blaster error disappeared and I was able to successfully load any of the configurations from the menu.

Hope this works for you too.

-Terry