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10 years ago

Blue Screen on Windows 10

I use Quartus 15.1 lite for my DE0-CV board. When I programming my board, it blue screen (IRQL not less or equal) all the time. I am pretty sure it's not my hardware issue since a lot of my classmates experience it too. Any solution? or is there any way I can report to Altera?

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    10 years ago

    Quartus 15.1 doesnt officially support windows 10. have you tried it on a supported OS (7, 8.1)? Maybe try in inside a VM?

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    10 years ago

    When will Windows 10 support become official? Quartus Prime 16.0 maybe, which is coming in March/April so I've heard?

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    10 years ago

    That is a question for Altera..

    Have you tried a different operating system, or clean install of W10?
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    10 years ago

    I'm still on Win7. Just trying to plan ahead. About to build a new PC and have to decide between Win7 and Win10. May switch to linux for Quartus for the sole reason of getting around the 260 char Windows path name limit, which I thought was only a problem in Vivado until I started using Quartus Prime.

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    9 years ago

    The crash occurs when (eg) you auto-detect the Jtag chain.

    This problem is latent and still there in Quartus 16.0.

    So far, I had this problem on 5 different computers,

    laptops or desktops.

    It seems to be a regression in the Blaster driver and could be related

    with motherboards with an AMD CPU.

    I found 2 possible solutions :

    1. The longest and probably cleanest way :

    Remove ENTIRELY Quartus (stop the jtag service), remove the whole directory

    and clean the registry (ccleaner).

    Then re-install 16.0 from scratch, ending with the installation of the USB driver.

    2. The fast easy way :

    In the device manager remove/uninstall the Blaster driver.

    Get a copy of the 13.1 drivers directory (\altera\13.1\quartus\drivers\usb-blaster)

    Install manually this older driver.

    It worked every time.

    Hope this helps,

    Bert