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18 years ago

Problem with USB-BLASTER driver

Hi all, Please I need some help as I have tried everything and am getting nowhere fast!. I have a Vista machine onto which I loaded the 8.0 programmer as this was all i needed at the time, and ins...
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18 years ago

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two version of QuartusII software under one operational system is the bad idea

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I've always been using different Quartus versions in parallel (with Win2k) and never experienced any USB Blaster problems. I suspect, this is a Vista specific issue. Some of my customers have a rule to keep the Quartus version if only smaller changes to a project are applied. Fortunately Quartus is supporting this practice very effective by the version specific software organisation. I hope, this feature can be continued with Windows Vista.