Blue Screen on Windows 10

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