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15 years agoThere can be a lot of reasons. Power supply, unconnected pin, missing pull-up... You can start with the JTAG chain debugger (described on pages 20-20 to 20-29 of the programmer datasheet (http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/qts/qts_qii53022.pdf)).