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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

Windows 10 driver support for USB Blaster ?

In reviewing the drivers download page it appears there are NO drivers for Windows 10 for the USB based Blaster programmer cables. Is this really true ?
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BRike
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7 years ago

Yep, that worked for me. Thanks! Glad to hear Intel is lazy like my little company in not getting their drivers registered with Microsoft!

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fdsa98
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5 years ago

I'm having no luck installing drivers for a DE10-Lite demo board on windows 10.

I've tried two computers and both end with the exact same message:

"Windows found drivers for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install them", "A problem was encountered while attempting to add the driver to the store".

I tried one option for eliminating driver signing (command line) and tried the advanced restart settings suggestion above but that ended with a bricked computer and a call to IT to get a bitlocker key. I'm not trying it again.

Are there any updates to this problem?

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    Fancellu
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    5 years ago

    2021, this is still the case. Astonishing that they ship drivers that will simply not work for 99% of win10 users

    The drivers in Quartus 20.1 are unsigned

    I attach screenshot of what my Windows 10 says


    Doesn't even complain about hash, just says no.

    Had to turn off driver signing enforcement, then worked fine via JTag

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      fdsa98
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      5 years ago

      Yep that's exactly the message I get.

      Specifically how did you disable driver signing?