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GuessWho
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1 year ago
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Questa*-Intel FPGA Edition Licensing Issue

Hello Intel Community - In October 2024 I successfully installed and licensed (fixed) Quartus Prime Lite Edition and Questa-Intel FPGA on my Windows desktop. I've recently tried to repeat this pro...
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    sstrell
    1 year ago
    Did you recently generate the file? Other posts were showing that the license generator was not creating proper files (everything was commented out). Maybe you need to regenerate the file.
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sstrell
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1 year ago

If it wasn't obvious, you can't use the same license file for two different computers.

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    GuessWho
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    1 year ago

    Yes good point, I wasn't clear on this detail in my initial question.

    I did request & receive a unique license file from Intel for my windows laptop with the new NIC ID. So unfortunately, the issue cannot be explained by improper license file sharing.

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      sstrell
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      1 year ago
      Did you recently generate the file? Other posts were showing that the license generator was not creating proper files (everything was commented out). Maybe you need to regenerate the file.
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        GuessWho
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for this tip! I regenerated a fresh license file and this issue was resolved.

        *Please note... I did have to use the environmental variable method this time around and a computer restart was required to get Questa operating properly.*