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BobDole
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4 years ago

Quartus Prime Lite - issue installing USB-Blaster driver -- unsigned driver

Hello, Currently having an issue getting Quartus Prime Lite to install properly on windows 10 machines. Did some digging around and the issue is caused by the driver certificate being out of date ...
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YuanLi_S_Intel
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4 years ago

Can you elaborate further on "software wont interface with our DE10 FPGA devices."? Is that programming issue on quartus? If so, what is the error message?


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    BobDole
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    4 years ago

    Basically windows 10 won't take the driver certificate for the USB Blaster 2 driver. They have an updated driver but I was not able to get windows to install it.

    I've solved the issue by downgrading to the 18.1 version which will install and interface with the DE10 Lite device. I'm just going to keep my labs running it for the time being until Intel finally updates the Quartus Lite software.

    See, they've fixed the outdated driver in the latest version Quartus Prime Pro, but they have yet to update the standard and Lite versions of the program, hence it's a big stupid mess right now. Boggles the mind why they'd only update the Pro version and not the standard or Lite, but I think it's kinda obvious why it's so...

    Thanks for trying to render assistance though, I do appreciate it. Shame we gotta use forums to find assistance as I wasn't unable to find an actual Intel rep to render aid.

    Oh well. Hate to use older software but what can you do...