DE2-70 problem

I have been dealing with this bug as well. The problem is in the NiosDownloadBatch.bat file. It looks for and creates env variables based on quartus 7.1 and 7.2. I am running quartus 9.0.

The sopc_kit_nios2 env variable gets created when you run the nios ide the first time. But I have no clue how or what creates the sopc_builder_path for version 9.0 of quartus. I even tried installing quartus and nios II v7.2 and that just messed up my env variables more.

Seems the only way to make this work would be to completed uninstall ALL Quartus and Nios IDE's. Then intall a clean copy of Quartus and NiosII v7.2. Which seems LAME to me!

I tried loading the the .sof file directly using the quartus ii programmer and usb-blaster but for the life of me I cannot upload the nios II processer because I cannot get the damn NiosDownloadBatch.bat to run.

It is really frustrating as hell and terasic has not been very helpful. In fact they sent me a reply that said in effect "For some reason nearly half the boards we ship have this problem running the control panel and we do not know the reason".

Well it took me 15 minutes to discover the reason (the damn thing is hard written to only work on systems that have ONLY quartus 7.2 and niosII 7.2 installed). It needs to be updated to support the latest versions of quartus and niosii ide or some kind of instratuction on how to det it up manually. I love when I have to learn how to do other peoples jobs to get products they sell me to work!