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13 years ago

USB blaster driver problems: Win 7 x32, Parallels 7

I am fairly new to quarts, I am a student and this is my first semester using it. I am running windows 7 x32 on my mac via parallels 7. I got the Quartus 11.0 software from the university and it works fine but the USB blaster does not show up in the programmer. I tried to install the driver software in the device manager but it says windows could not finder driver software. It is also giving (code 28)

This is the path I used

C:\Altera\11.0\quartus\drivers\usb-blaster2\x86

If anyone could help me with this I would greatly appreciate it, I am stumped as well as my professor.

Thanks in advance

2 Replies

Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
13 years ago
Unless you have a Stratix V development kit with a USB-Blaster-II on it, you should be installing the USB-Blaster driver, eg.,

C:\software\altera\11.1sp1\quartus\drivers\usb-blaster

There were problems with 11.0's drivers. Try using the latest version of Quartus, i.e., 11.1sp1.

I think someone may have complained about the 11.1sp2 drivers with the web edition ...

I know that 11.1sp1 works, so start with that.

Cheers,
Dave
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
13 years ago
Thanks for your reply,

I resolved the issue this morning.
I was trying these paths:
C:\Altera\11.0\quartus\drivers\usb-blaster2\x86
C:\Altera\11.0\quartus\drivers\usb-blaster\x32

The correct path is:
C:\Altera\11.0\quartus\drivers\usb-blaster

Embarrassing mistake on my part but I did learn something from it