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Honored ContributorThanks for the suggestion!
Unfortunately running as administrator doesn't fix the problem, and neither does disabling UAC altogether.:( We HAVE identified that the issue that makes it crash when opening POF files is because they are rather OLD .pof files, and so we have found a work-around.:) We program a device with the rather old pof files, using another (working) copy of quartus (v7.0 subscription edition), and we DO NOT set the security bit. Then we move to the quartus v11.0 programmer PC (the one that crashes when opening the old .pof files), and we read out the contents of the device and save it again, in the new .pof file format I guess. Anyway, the v11.0 software can then read these files and it works. I guess we should be able to recompile the PALs using the new version of quartus and that might fix the issue, but it's a very old design and although Max PlusII compiles it just fine, I have yet to find the right combination of settings to force Quartus to find a 'fit' , so it just bombs out of attempted compilations complaining that there isn't enough room in the target device. Oh well, that's life I gues..... -Thanks again,
