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14 years ago

Quartus II and USB Blaster

Hi All,

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease help.

I installed Quratus II on my new laptop, Windows 7 OS. However, it doesn't recognize USB Blaster. I tried everything said in the forum and with no luck. I tried "login as adminstrater" and everything esle.

Here are my settings:

OS: Windows 7, Service Pack 1. 64-bit OS

Quratus II : 11.1sp2_259_quartus_free_windows

Hardware: DE2 Board with Cylcone II

when I go to Device Manger in the Control Panel, it shows me that ALTERA USB-Blaster under ( Universal Serial Bus Controllers). However, when I go to Quartus II it doesn't see the USB Blaster?

Please help,

Thanks

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    14 years ago

    When you say it "doesn't see the USB Blaster", what exactly do you mean? You should invoke the Programmer, choose "Hardware Setup", then "Currently Selected Hardware". Choose "USB Blaster", then "Close".

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    14 years ago

    I've tired that already. The programmer doesn't have any USB-Blaster in the selections.

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    14 years ago

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    did you install the device drivers?

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    How do I install the device derivers?

    When I physically connect the USB Blaster, I check "Device Manger" from "COntrol Panel" and it says "ALTERA USB Blaster" works fine.

    Do I need to do anything else?
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    14 years ago

    You can always try uninstalling the driver from the Device Manager. Let Windows find the driver again next time you plug in the Blaster. I'm running a configuration virtually identical to yours and have no problem.

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    14 years ago

    I vaguely recall a thread in which the poster could not get Quartus Web Edition 11.1SP2 working with the USB-Blaster.

    I have 11.1SP1 working under Windows XP, 7, Linux Centos 6.2 and Ubuntu 11.10. I'd recommend starting with that.

    Could you please post back if that gets the USB-Blaster working for you.

    Thanks!

    Cheers,

    Dave
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    14 years ago

    I've tried to uninstall and then install the driver, no luck.

    But I didn't try downloading 11.1sp1, where can i find it?

    Thanks
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    14 years ago

    I fixed the probelm by going back to the 9.1 version and it worked.. However, i still don't know what happened with version 11.1sp2 ?!!!!

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    14 years ago

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    But I didn't try downloading 11.1sp1, where can i find it?

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    The releases are usually here:

    ftp://ftp.altera.com/outgoing/release/

    However, 11.1sp1 does not appear to be there.

    Try installing an earlier version and see if that helps. I think that once you have the driver working, it won't get broken by installing 11.1sp2, since Windows will already have the driver installed (so you won't get the new hardware detected dialog when you plug in the USB-Blaster).

    Cheers,

    Dave
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    14 years ago

    FWIW, and somewhat beside the point, I find ver 9.1 to be preferable to 11.1 and always use it unless there's some new device it doesn't support.