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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

USB Blaster cable fails to programm, causes PC to restart

I recently used a USB blaster cable for programming my CPLD (MAX V family) using Quartus Prime lite edition. The problem that I am facing is that during the first two-three attempts of using the prog...
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9 years ago

Is this your own hardware, or a development board? I'm concerned your design causes your CPLD to draw too much current and has damaged the power supplies.

As for the PC, assuming windows, under the Start button type 'view event log', click on 'View event logs' and look through there for the reason the PC restarted. If it's shut down unexpectedly your PC should come back up asking if you wish to boot in safe mode. Does it?

Check all the power supplies on your target board. Are they all OK?

Can your PC see the USB-Blaster - can you see it in 'Device manager'? (It doesn't need to be connected to your target board, just the PC.)

Check all these and report back.

Cheers,

Alex