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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

USB Blaster driver problem

I just downloaded Quartus II yesterday to a new machine (I've been using it at a different location before). Quartus runs fine and I finished my first design with it just now and I'm ready to try bur...
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16 years ago

I got zero help from Altera, but I eventually solved this problem by NOT following the Altera solution.

Plug in the USB Blaster and wait for the "Found New Hardware" wizard to start. Instead of closing that and going down the manual install path as Altera suggests, play by the Microsoft game rules. The wizard worked for me once I pointed to where the driver files were located. Doing that with the manual installation procedure failed. That may be because I am installing in my F: drive instead of the more standard C: drive.

GL!