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SRead3
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5 years ago

As support staff preparing for next term my college is using the Altera DE0 board with software 10.1sp1_quartus_free_windows.exe. Problem is I get the error “The hash for the file is not present...” when installing the USB-Blaster driver.

Is there an easier way to get this to work besides turning off secure boot? Is there a newer driver which has the hash that would work? It needs to be simple for the Students.
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AR_A_Intel
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5 years ago

Hello

Welcome to INTEL forum. Based on my understanding, you are trying to install very old USB blaster driver (from Quartus 10.1sp1 for Wind xp) into newer Windows system like Win8 or Win10.

Workaround, install newer Quartus software that contains newer USB blaster driver that match with Win8 or Win10.

You can check whether your machine is supported or not (OS) by referring to ling below:

https://fpgasoftware.intel.com/requirements/

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SRead3
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5 years ago

Thank you for your reply.

Yes you are correct, a very old USB blaster driver from Quartus 10.1sp1.

My job at Niagara College is new but I understand the Professor insists on using 10.1sp1 because his notes were created with this version.

So I have a question to ask.

Can I extract the USB blaster from the oldest version which supports windows 10 (which from your provided link, appears to be version 16) and install that driver but still use version 10.1sp1?

I look forward to your reply.