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FMCC
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4 years ago
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USB Blaster not being installed after fresh installation of Quartus Prime software

Hello Intel et al, I just installed a fresh installation of Quartus Prime (21.1) on a Windows 10 machine (64 bit). The qdz file for the cyclone V board was also downloaded to the same directory as...
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    FMCC
    4 years ago

    So the installation of Quartus Prime Lite was uninstalled and then re-installed. I have attached two images to this post to give information about the installation. The first image was the for the Devices selected. I selected all the devices to be safe.

    The second image is to show that I checked to Launch USB Blaster II driver installation.

    The third image is to show that the Driver installation was successful. The response was for JTAG and not for the USB Blaster II driver though.

    I still had to go in manually, per the procedure you attached your first post, fix the driver issues. (done in device manager)

    I think there is something wrong with the installation software. I don't believe I should have to go in and manually do anything.

    Any thoughts?

    Devices

    Driver installation checkedDriver installation confirmation

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4 years ago

This is an update to the above post.

I had this problem previously and I had to install the USB Blaster driver manually on my laptop using the below procedure.

https://www.terasic.com.tw/wiki/Intel_USB_Blaster_II_Driver_Installation_Instructions

This will be tested on another installation.

Assuming it works, where did I go wrong in my installation so the USB Driver is not installed? Is this a bug in the installation software?

Thanks

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    Arno-NL
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    4 years ago

    May I ask whether you manually uninstaled the USB blaster when you uninstalled your previous Quartus? Or hadn't you installed the USB blaster on that system to begin with?

    Note: The integrated programmer on the Cyclone V GX Starter Kit is the Altera USB Blaster, not the II version.

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      4 years ago

      The PC's were this was installed did have a prior version of Quartus installed however, the prior version of Quartus was uninstalled and the PC's restarted before the installation of Quartus Prime Lite took place. I didn't manually uninstall USB Blaster.

      When I manually installed the driver I pointed to the following directory: C:\intelFPGA_lite\21.1\quartus\drivers

      I initially went down the directory tree further however it could not find the driver. I retried it stopping at the upper level 'drivers' directory and it worked. I attached a JPG file to show the directory structure

      We have other software on these PC's.

      - National Instruments MultiSim

      - Keil

      - 8051flash from Mikroelektronika

      I'm unaware of any conflicts though.