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8 years ago

USB Blaster shows up in device manager under Ports (COM & LPT) as a USB serial port

Hi all! I have a Dell Inspiron laptop running Windows 10, and I have a DE2-70 kit. When I plug in the USB blaster, nothing happens, and I go to the device manager, and it shows up in device man...
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8 years ago

As far as I'm aware of, this happens if the USB Blaster 9346 EEPROM has lost is content. The usual solution is to rewrite the expected USB Blaster EEPROM content with the FTDI FT-Prog tool.

See:

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6579

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2445

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4606

The previous posts are referring to the old FTDI Mprog tool which has been superseded by FT-Prog.