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14 years ago

USBblaster does not show up in Quartus

Hi All, I've got Quartus II V11.0sp1 installed on my Windows 7 64bit system. I've installed the USBblaster and device manager reports it as being OK, but Quartus refuses to recognize it in the ...
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14 years ago

Thanks for the replies guys. I'll run the netstat command if it happens again.

Also (as per Altera's recommendations) I had disabled ZoneAlarm and AVG, but how do personal firewalls actually affect this? Should I add jtagserver.exe to allowed programs that can start servers locally? I could run ZoneAlarm from from the startup directory I guess but this defeats the object somewhat.

Edit: Not out of the woods yet :( It seems I cannot open an existing project or create a new one without an internal error and Quartus shutting down. I've had to re-install again. Still got an internal error just once with the new project wizard (only on 64 bit version though), but seems OK now.