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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

I also have the exact same problem but running on XP Pro 64bit. Quartus 10.0 sp1, does not recognize the hardware.

I have been looking for solutions on the forums, but so far I have found nothing that was applicable or worked. The drivers appear in Device Manager and seem to have installed fine, however Quartus will not recognize.

I am almost ready to switch to Xilinx, as I am having too many issues with the Altera tools and my design is still in the early stages.