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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

troubles with Windows 10

Hi,

I'm trying to connect a DEO-Nano board under windows 10 OS, I have tried several versions of QUARTUS II to get the correct USB-blaster drivers, but without any success. I have even tried to load these drivers manually from Windows 10, but whatever the solution I get always the same message : verify if you have installed QUARTUS! I have no more ideas to test :confused:

Does anybody has any experience with this board, or it is simply not windows10 compatible.

Thank you for your help.

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    Altera_Forum
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    9 years ago

    Hi,

    I am having the same issue with DE0 board (Cyclone III). Quartus II v12.0 SP2 does not detect the board, despite the drivers were correctly installed.

    I suspect that old versions of Quartus II don't have support for W10. However, if anyone know the oldest version of Quartus II that supports W10 I would appreciate it.
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    9 years ago

    I think only quartus 16+ officially support windows 10.

    You could always run it on linux (or windows 7) in a virtual machine.
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    9 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    Hi,

    I am having the same issue with DE0 board (Cyclone III). Quartus II v12.0 SP2 does not detect the board, despite the drivers were correctly installed.

    I suspect that old versions of Quartus II don't have support for W10. However, if anyone know the oldest version of Quartus II that supports W10 I would appreciate it.

    --- Quote End ---

    I have tried Quartus16.0 Prime lite web edition and I got the same answer from the TERASIC demo code : DE0_Nano_ControlPanel. Nevertheless it seems that QUARTUS 16.0 directly recognizes the board DEO-Nano: QUARTUS PRIME LITE EDITION 16.0 >Tools >>Programmer >> Hardwaresetup >> USB-Blaster double click to validate.

    To be continued!
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    9 years ago

    As the FPGA I am using is the Cyclone III, 16.0 version is not suitable for me.

    Anyway, I have been trying other versions of Quartus II. Despite it has no support for W10, I installed quartus ii v13.1 and it worked correctly! It recognized the device and I could run several projects.

    Maybe other people can give more feedback, as I just made a few tests.

    Best regards,

    Javier.