Can't configure Cyclone 2 via ipbus

Hi all,

I'm a complete rookie on FPGAs, so it is possible I'm doing something silly. I've been trying to load the example program onto our Cyclone 2 without any luck.

My procedure is to parse the Intel hex file provided by Altera and write each data byte to the configuration register one at a time. The nStatus and Configuration bits remain high during the process, but the FPGA never enters user mode. The only other clue I could find is that the CRC_ERROR bit is always high during the configuration. I never set the device up to use CRC, so I'm not sure if that is just being ignored or actually reporting an error. Could that be indicative of a hardware problem? Any advice is greatly appreciated as I've been hitting my head against this wall for a few days now.

Matthias