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yash2
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24 days ago

USB blaster not detected in Quartus 24.1

Hi, Recently updated from windows 10 to windows 11. Previously was using Quartus 19.1 and after upgrade USB blaster driver got corrupted. Below are the steps I did to debug the issue: Update drive...
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FvM
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18 days ago

Hi,

OP is asking about USB Blaster rather than USB Blaster II. Driver and installation procedure are quite different for both products.

There may be a problem if you still have an old, not Windows 11 compatible FTDI driver stack on your computer. Did you try to remove USB Blaster completely in Device Manager, enabling delete driver software option?