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11 years ago

Installation of USB-Blaster Driver DE2 board programming with Quartus II 12.0 or13.0

Earlier I installed the driver in a DE1 board and it worked fine. I used Quartus II 5.0 provided in Cd-s along-with the board. Now license for it is not available. I was suggested to download it from...
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11 years ago

if the devices do not dissapear with the DE2 board unconnected it would indicate these are not necessarily caused by the QII Installation. Assuming they appeared same time with the Installation, they should...

If you miss the driver files in QII Installation Directory (\13.0sp1\quartus\Drivers\usb-blaster should contain a "usbblstr.inf") an option might be to install the standalone programmer edition of quartus which contain drivers.

For the programmer window - as long as the USB-blaster is not installed, recognized and "made useable" by Windows, the QII window cannot list the device under Hardware Setup.

Regarding the checksum - this should in either case show the checksum of the *.sof you select by add or Change file, so your's "it is different" refers to?