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Jacek159
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2 years ago
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Cannot program cyclone IV with USB blaster

Hello, I have an Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE6E22C8N board which supports programming via JTAG USB, and so I have a USB blaster revision C and connected it to the JTAG port and installed the drivers for ...
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    Jacek159
    2 years ago

    Hello, yes!

    It turns out the USB blaster I ordered was defective, trying it with a replacement it worked no problem.

    Additionally, for future reference, the defective one did not have a constant shining "ACT" light, and Windows event viewer reported status code 0 as problem starting.

    Thanks!

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NurAiman_M_Intel
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2 years ago

Hi,


Please try to uninstall Quartus and USB blaster driver, and then reinstall while logged into an administrator account.


Regards,

Aiman


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Jacek159
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2 years ago

Hey Aiman,

Thank you for your reply.

I did try this, on a new machine even on an administrator account, and even ran the Quartus installer and programmer as administrator, but I'm getting the same behaviour.

Could this be an issue with the USB blaster perhaps? I'm getting the same thing even with the FPGA JTAG unplugged,