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 programmer hardware pull-down. It seems the JTAG server won't start (it starts then stops according to the services manager). I've been through the forum looking for fixes, including installing the standalone programmer (tried 10.1sp1, 11.0 and 11.1sp1). Nothing seems to work. However I did see it appear once, but that was very early on after initial installation. Can anyone help? Thanks! Mark.

i've seen similar behavior. use the Device Manager to uninstall the USB Blaster. then unplug and plug the cable back into the PC and install the driver again

Thanks, I've already tried that (I even unistalled the root hub to force Windows to re-install), same problem. The JTAG service isn't running. If I try to restart with services.msc the service starts then immediately stops. Funny thing is this has worked before (V11.0) , I think it stopped working when I installed 11.0sp1. I'm wondering whether I need to re-install as Administrator (I have admin privileges, but do I need to actually run the install programs as Administrator?) News just in: I had previously tried re-installing Quartus and all the drivers before without success. This time I re-installed by running the install programs as Administrator, and it seems to have worked. As belt and braces I've also set the JTAG service as 'delayed automatic' just in case there are timing or dependency issues with the install of the service. Touch wood things seem to be stable now (famous last words!!).

The Jtag server runs even if you don't have any USB blaster connected so yes it was likely an access rights problem. Either something else had already opened port 1309, or the Jtag server needed administrator privileges for some reason.

Sometimes firefox happens to open port 1309 by chance and blocks jtagserver. Try `netstat -an | grep 1309` to see if anything is listening on that port. jtagserver needs administrative access to register with the service manager but once you've registered a normal user can start it. All the jtag programs (programmer, SystemConsole etc) will start jtagserver if it is installed but not running. The exception is if you have quartus installed on a network in which case the service manager will need a username and password to access the jtagserver binaries.

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.

USBblaster does not show up in Quartus | Altera Community

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Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
13 years ago
With help from Altera support I managed to solve this issue
- Got a new inf file
- Got a new driver
- Got the error message: "Attempted to access JTAG server -- interal errror code 82 occured.”
- I’ve turned my windows firewall off
- I’ve turned my virus scanner firewall off
- I’ve started a command prompt
- I’ve went to the install directory of quartus and then to the bin64 directory
- Typed in jtagconfig –serverinfo Server was running
- Typed in jtagserver –start. A message appears that this should not be needed as, quartus start’s its self.
- Started quartus, and now it was seen. Don’t know why but it’s fixed now.
- I’ve turned my windows firewall on, still the usb blaster is seen
- I’ve turned my virus scanner firewall on, still the usb blaster is seen
- Between these actions I rebooted several times the PC
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
13 years ago
These were the files from Altera.
Hope this might help you as well.

Rgds,
Kimberley
altera_files.zip10 KB
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
13 years ago
I have had the same problem this morning (Windows7, Quartus 11.1sp2 64bits)and I did the following procedure :

- Uninstall the USB Blaster driver if already installed.
- Unplugged the USB Blaster
- Remove the directory USB-blaster in Quartus/Drivers/...
- Copy the repertory USB-blaster from the Quartus10.1 to the location Quartus/Drivers/...
- Plug the USB Blaster and tell install the driver with the path quartus/drivers/usb-blaster

And it works for me :)
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
13 years ago
I have same problem, but on WIN XP. I bought 2x BeMicro Nios II SDK. The 1st unit I used no longer shows up as a "USB Blaster" device. It shows up as a COM port (COM24). I can not talk to it using Nios II Software Build tool for eClipse, nor Quartus II 11.1sp2.

My 2nd unit works over USB Blaster port. How can I restore factory defaults/image?
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
13 years ago
System: Windows 7 - 64 bit
QuartusII - 11.1 SP2 - 32 bit

I have another solution not listed here, for those of you that still cannot get it working.

/support/kdb/solutions/rd03062012_414.html

(sorry i cant post links, put http www altera.com in front of that link)

This support page here talks about a patch, but it says that the patch is *ONLY* for 64 bits versions of QuartusII 11.1 SP2. "32-bit installations are not affected."

The cake is a lie. This patch also works for 32 bit versions of QuartusII. Follow the instructions on the support page above, but when running the patcher, it will not detect that you have any version of quartus installed (if like me you actually have 32 bit quartus.)

Luckily, the patcher allows you to "install anyway" warning some rubbish about it not working and messing up your install. Choose as the install dir "C:\altera\11.1sp2" or whatever yours happens to be.

Tell it to install anyway.

Start the jtagserver again. Voila :)

Worked for me after wasting hours of downloading every dll and ini and standalone installer version I could get my hands on.
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
13 years ago
I followed all of the suggestions above, but nothing.
USB blaster doesn't show up in ANY way, WTF.

Any update?:confused:

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