Cyclone 3 Not entering AS Mode

Since EPCS is not available anymore, we switch to EPCQ16 which is supposed to be compactible. Even without using the memory chip, it seems like we are not getting any clock from DCLK which from reading the documentation will not have anything to do with the memory chip we are using. We are just trying to run a simple programming file that outputs frequency so that we can see it in TX to verify that things are well. Also we cant program AS at all.