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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

USB Blaster driver was installed, but Altera Programmer Hardware Setup can't find it.

Dear all I re-install my PC with new HD, because the old HD is broken. The USB blaster is work normally before I re-install, and it's work normally when plug in other PC. The system is w...
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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

This issue is ancient. Every time I need to set up Quartus and USB Blaster on a computer it's the same thing. The programmer can't find the USB Blaster.

This has been a problem for so long, I don't get why Intel/Altera doesn't fix this.

Last workaround was to update the driver pointing to the drivers directory in the Quartus 17.0 installation but not the Blaster directories. This is really silly. At least write it somewhere so it's easy to find the fix.