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RandyR
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5 years ago

USB-Blaster issues with Windows10

My class at CU-Boulder uses the Terasic DE10-Lite board and Quartus Lite. Over the past two years students sometimes run into the issue of the USB_Blaster driver not installing properly, but updatin...
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5 years ago

This problem is occuring on Quartus-Lite 20.1 and, but the class last semester used the same Quartus version and did not see this. I believe something changed in Windows recently.

The underlying issue is that the USB-Blaster driver is unsigned, and Windows doesn't like it. Isn't the customer friendly thing to do would be to get the USB-Blaster driver updated so that Windows doesn't refuse to install it?

Or, at the least, document and publish a series of steps that would assist your customers?

Please don't just send me a canned email telling me to look in the Knowledge Base, that is zero help.

R Robinson