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I have been trying some of the suggested solutions to get Quartus II V11 to recognize the USB baster...
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The first thing you need to get sorted is for the Windows device manager to see the blaster cable. After opening device manager open the "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" and you should see the USB-Blaster in there.
Once the driver is installed Quartus should see your cable automatically - there should be no need to add it. If Device Manager is happy try running jtagconfig` from a command window and check that a `jtagserver` process is started in the task manager. Jtagconfig should list your cable in its output.
If device manager does not show a USB-Blaster then you should look for suspicious devices. I've always seen them show up under "Unknown device" but windows isn't always very helpful here. Right click on them and select "Properties" then the "Details" tab. Take a look at the hardware IDs property - if it's VID_09FB&PID_6001 then you have a driver problem, if it's VID_0&PID_0 then you have a hardware problem.
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