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15 years ago

programmer only sees ethernet blaster, not usb blaster

hi evryone, am a complete newbie. I run quartus II on win7 x32, but programmer only sees 'ethernet blaster' at 'add hardware', usb blaster is not present at all. There is already a usb blaster folder...
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8 years ago

On a brand new PC (Win10 x64 32GB) just installed Q17.0. Plugged in the USB-Blaster. Loaded a project, opened the programmer and the USB-Blaster was no where to be found. Found it in the device manager with a problem. No known reason for the problem. Tried updating the driver by selected the Blaster directories under Drivers - didn't work. Came to think of it; had the same problem last time I played with Q16 on another machine with a DE0-Nano-SOC. Found that if you chose just the Drivers directory and not the Blaster directory it finds the driver needed and pops up in the programmer. Why Altera/Intel has this been a problem for so many years and how many years more are we going to wait for it just to work when it's plugged in?