Programming Issue with Active Serial Programming

Carl - thanks for your reply. Active Serial Programming is selected as the programming mode, program, verify and blank check are selected and Quartus V6 reports the silicon ID error. Should it not be checking for a silicon ID, and is doing so because of a setting error?

FvM - thanks for your reply - yes, we are using the Bye Blaster II adapter. I suspect it may have suffered a failure in one of the signals associated with ASP, as it does JTAG programming on other devices on this assembly without any issues. I will probably need to replace it, but was wondering if I should continue using the parallel optin, or is there a USB version that works as well or better?

Blair