installing the USB Blaster on Windows

Hey All,

I had been baning my head against a wall trying to install the USB blaster drivers for Windows, but I have finally found the answer after being pointed to a "solution" on Altera's web page (Which i had not found). Hopefully re posting this here will save some pain.

I was seeing the folllowing error after following the steps in the Altera User manual :- Error : The specified location does not contain information about your hardware

The basic answer was to uninstall the USB blaster driver from WIndows, Reboot, and then plug the cable back in and use the add hardware wizzard that pops up's.

(pointing it to the drivers/usb-blaster/ (x32 /x64) folder under Quartus II).

For full details search www.altera.com (http://www.altera.com/) for "Error : The specified location does not contain information about your hardware"