Error (209059): Can't communicate with device. Device will stop functioning...

i left the programmer running. ive seen a popup message about the cores running lots of times and its always worked with this exact code.

and ive always been able to load the nios. only last night, did i start seeing this red message show up in the quartus ... and now, the nios wont load.

ive switched to a cheaper fpga that will work with the free quartus and our 500 dollar nios license for now.