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17 years ago

bblpt service won't start

I'm running Quartus II 8.1 in Windows XP with a (working) CardBus parallel port. Quartus "Add Hardware" dialog shows a "ByteBlasterMV or ByteBlaster II" option for "Hardware type:", but displays "ker...
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17 years ago

Thanks Brad. That link was what had lead me to the bblpt command. I should have included that running "net start ALTERABYTEBLASTER" returns:

System error 1068 has occurred.

The dependency service or group failed to start.

Also, running "sc start ..." on either parport or parvdm returns:

[SC] StartService FAILED 1058:

The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

Any other suggestions?