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17 years ago

Couldn't install usb blaster driver on HP dv4-1020us notebook (64bit Vista)

Hello, I have installed the Quartus-II 8.0 SP1 on HP dv4-1020us notebook (64bit Windows Vista), the software is runing fine. When I plug in the usb blaster cable which connects to a Terasic DE3 bo...
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17 years ago

I looked at the file "usbblstr.inf" under the driver directory "usb-blaster" and found that the 64 bit driver files are all tied to the name "amd64" or "NTamd64", but my notebook's cpu is intel's Core 2 Duo. Don't know if this is the reason the Windows couldn't load the 64bit driver files.