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SEL_TestEngineer
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9 months ago

USB-BlasterII mounts as "USB-Blaster variant"

 Hello!  My company uses the USB-BlasterII pods with Quartus.  Many times, when the Blaster is plugged in, it is detected by Quartus as "USB-Blaster variant" instead of "USB-BlasterII".  When this ha...
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sstrell
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9 months ago

How have you installed the drivers?  Try downloading the standalone Quartus Programmer (the latest, 25.3).  You can choose to install the drivers at the end of that installation.

Also, if you do jtagconfig from a command line, what output do you get when it shows up as a "variant?"