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15 years ago

USB BLASTER Hardware missing in Quartus II under Win7 64 bit

That's really a bad news, what happened is that we need big memory (around 5~6 G) and we have no choice but change to a 64 bit OS system. And then like everybody knows, Win7 doesn't like o...
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15 years ago

There are several threads on the forum about using 64 bit versions of windows with the USB blaster. For example: usb-blaster on windows 7 (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19233)

One possible solution:

Install older USB drivers from Quartus II 7.2 SP3 or install the newer drivers from Quartus II 9.1. Any version in between is not properly signed and x64 versions of windows require signed drivers.