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17 years ago

ByteBlaster II

Hi I hope for some help with a problem I generally use USB Blaster with Quartus II Web Edition V7.1 Build 156 on XP Version 2002 SP3 An coleague has taken my USB Blaster with him on a...
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16 years ago

Does your motherboard have a parallel port, or are you using a PCI plug-in parallel port? If using a motherboard praallel port you should not have any probelm, as long as it is LPT1:

If the latter, then it will most likely come with another driver - not parport.sys. Parport.sys is the Windows default driver - you should have an installation disk that will put the appropriate XXXXX.sys file into windows/system32 (as I mentioned in my post above). You also need to switch the port number to LPT1: