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14 years ago

USB Blaster with Windows 8?

Hello,

I recently updated to windows 8 64 bit with no real thought put into it. When I realized I still have a full term of school work ahead of me that requires my DE2 115 board I panicked and ran straight to quartus. I was thankful when my Quartus worked fine and didnt think anything of it. Then it came to the time where I needed to program my board. Sure enough the drivers that were such a pain in the *** to install the first time for USB Blaster didnt transfer over. So here I sit, broken hearted, trying to follow the same procedure as before and update my Blaster drivers but I keep running into an error telling me my drivers were either corrupted or the victim of tampering. Then it tells me to visit the website of the manufacturer and check the support section of driver software. So here I am brilliant forummers, any suggestions?

Thanks

Trent

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    Altera_Forum
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    14 years ago

    I'm running Win 8 RTM and was able to get 12.0SP2 working with a DE0-Nano after installing the stand alone programmer.

    The usbblaster inf does not seem to properly load some files but it was the jtag server that caused me problems. The Altera dlls are a few months older than the latest FTDI files but that does not appear to be the issue with the install.

    I installed and run without setting "run as administrator" or using compatibility mode for the applications.

    I did not uninstall the previous driver when installing the stand alone programmer.

    I'd expect similar behavior from earlier revs (pre-release) of Win 8.

    What release version are you running?

    Most releases will ignore installed drivers (even signed) on an over-install because the security policy has changed. I'm guessing that you are running an older version of Quartus. Even 12 does not have a properly published installer but that only generates a warning. Thankfully the drivers are signed.

    -Dan
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    14 years ago

    This didn't seem to fix the issue. Any windows 8 drivers out there?

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    14 years ago

    Hi,

    while I'm not sure the problem is similar with the Win7 64Bit installation, but maybe you give it a try...

    The WebEdition is only a 32Bit and the 32Bit drivers and the JTAG server do not operate under 64Bit Edition... My workaround was to install the standalone Programmer, which solved the "no hardware" issue...