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12 years ago

USB Blaster driver fails to install on windows 8.1 (64bit)

Dear All: I am having a difficult time trying to get the usb blaster to install in my system in order to run programs on the board. I have not been successful and its becoming frustrating. I ...
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12 years ago

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I just setup USB blaster on Win 8.1 not long ago. Can't remember how I did it exactly, but did not encounter difficulty installing the driver. And SOF download works afterwards.

Did you follow the instructions at, http://www.altera.com/download/drivers/usb-blaster/dri-usb-blaster-vista.html ?

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I tried to follow all the instructions, however I did not see the "found new hardware dialogue box". So I tried other tricks to install it but no luck so far.