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13 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 tr...
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13 years ago

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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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Thank you so much Dave,

I dowloaded Quartus WE 9.1 and my USB Blaster was seen by it.

I went back to 11.1sp2 and it still cannot see the USB Blaster. i really believe there is a BUG in 11.1sp2

Thanks