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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago --- Quote Start --- I am having this issue. Board worked under 13, but now it is bricked after installing the top.rbf for v14. I am using Win 7, and the computer doesn't boot with the board installed. Is there a way to keep the flash from loading on boot? Because it never even displays the bios message. I'm thinking of powering using a computer that doesn't need to boot and re-flashing using usb --- Quote End --- Ok that happened to me too, your system is not Posting. Here is what I did: power down the computer, remove the board from the PCI bus, connect a power cable from the motherboard to the FPGA board. Now you have a dangling FPGA card so be careful; I recommend that if you have an extra slot in your PC case, that does NOT allow the board to connect to the PCI bus, place it in this empty slot just for now. Next, connect the micro-USB cable from your computer back to the FPGA board, power up your computer. Your computer should now boot, afterward, start the BWCONFIG utility, you should be able to erase the top.rbf file that you previously loaded. Finally, power-cycle your system (not just restart), power-down then place back in the PCI slot and it should boot ok.