Altera DE2 Board Not Powering Up Properly

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I have 2 DE2 board which does not display the welcome message after it powers up. Looks like it is failing on the Power On Test. Anyone ran into this problem and found a way to "hard" reset these boards? 

 Thanks in advance.

[Altera_Forum]

Hi Joelim 

Does the "run-prog" switch, is in "run" position ?? Try it.

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, 

 Yes it is. Thanks.

[Altera_Forum]

The factory configuration may have been overwritten and should be restored from the backup file.

[Altera_Forum]

Thanks! 

Is there any documentation on how to restore the backup file?

[Altera_Forum]

Hi Joelim. 

In the DE2_UserManual.pdf, chapter 5.1 (5.1 DE2 Factory Configuration) is the decription of how to download the DE2_Default demo. It is simply programming in the DE2_Demonstrations/DE2_Default the .sof file.  Regards Alberto.