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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 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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    13 years ago

    I have exacly the same problem with WINDOWS 7 64 Bit

    Same package installs fine on a VISTA 32 Bit system

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    Appear to have the drivers loaded ok from

    C:\altera\11.1sp2\qprogrammer\drivers\usb-blaser

    Control panel reports

    Altera USB-Blaser

    Port_#0004.Hub_#0005

    Altera 3/18/2011 2.8.14.0 Not digitally signed

    C:\Windows\syswow64\usbblstr32.dll FTDI Ltd 3.02.04

    Started up : quartus-pgmw

    Click the "Hardware Setup" button: Done

    "USB BLaster" should appear as a line in the Hardware Setup window that opens: But it does not !

    Any suggestions?

    Les
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    13 years ago

    I'm having the same problem with Quartus II 32-bit Version 11.1 Build 259 01/25/2012 SJ Webn Edition (SP2 installed), on Win7. Fresh install of everything. Took SOOOOOO long to download, I really don't want to try again with older software. Please try to fix this or find a direct workaround. Thanks.

    EDIT: OOPS, didn't see multiple pages for this post, so I didn't get to the end where there's a patch solution. Trying it now...

    EDIT: DARN. This won't fix my problem. The fix is for 64-bit version only. Not that I chose it explicitly, but I have 32-bit version running. This problem DOES exist with 32-bit version. So now what do I do????????????
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    13 years ago

    DARN. This won't fix my problem. The fix is for 64-bit version only. Not that I chose it explicitly, but I have 32-bit version running. This problem DOES exist with 32-bit version. So now what do I do????????????

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    13 years ago

    FIXED. Here's how I fixed my problem with 32-bit 11.1sp2 Web Edition, WITHOUT uninstalling it or downloading a complete prior version.

    This did NOT go automagically. Note the red text below, that was key.

    1) Download and install 10.0sp1 programmer only from ftp://ftp.altera.com/outgoing/release/10.0sp1_programmer_windows.exe

    2) From device manager, right click USB blaster, select Update Driver Software

    3) Choose "Browse my computer for driver software"

    4) Choose "Let me pick..." (auto search won't get old driver)

    5) Choose "Have Disk" (auto search won't get old driver)

    6) Navigate to 10.0sp1 folder, then qprogrammer/drivers/usb-blaster

    7) Select usbblstr.inf that I find there, not looking deeper into x32 or x64 folders

    I doubt this part is necessary, but I tried the 10.0sp1 programmer and it found the USB Blaster. Then I went to the 11.1sp2 Quartus, and it also found the USB Blaster. I probably could have gone straight to the 11.1sp2 Quartus.
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    13 years ago

    I had the same problem with my usb blaster under q11.1sp2.

    OS: Windows 7 / 64, Service Pack 1.

    Quratus II : 11.1sp2_259_quartus_free_windows

    I solved the problem in the following way.

    - i unistalled the usb blaster driver (device manager),

    - than i copied the driver folder of a q11.0 WE installation from my laptop in the driver folder of my q11.1sp2 on my pc,

    - (i think it is also possible to copy the folder to a different destination)

    - after this i reinstalled the usb blaster driver manually (see Dr.Lightnings last post),

    - than i started q11.2 and the usb blaster is selectable in the programmer setup window.