USB Blaster and Win 7

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Hi All 

I have installed Quartus 10 web edition but cannot install the usb blaster driver as my system says it is not found. I have tried the x64 driver posted for win 7 and quartus II version 9.1 but it does not work. Anyone that can help? thanks, Gerhard

[Altera_Forum]

I am running Quartus 9.1sp2 and had trouble getting it installed on Vista-64. The OS wanted a signed driver and the one delivered with the Quartus installer is not signed. I installed the USB Blaster driver for 7.2sp3 and that one worked. I read about this patch on a couple of other threads. I filed a SR on this and they sent me a driver which also worked but was probably the same thing as the one in 7.2sp3.

[Altera_Forum]

Make sure you install the ACDS v10.0 without any anti-virus programs running in the background. This is a known issue which results in some (a lot) of the files not being written to your drive during installation. The driver in 10.0 works with Windows 7 without you haven't to turn off driver signing while loading Windows.

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--- Quote Start ---  I am running Quartus 9.1sp2 and had trouble getting it installed on Vista-64. The OS wanted a signed driver and the one delivered with the Quartus installer is not signed. I installed the USB Blaster driver for 7.2sp3 and that one worked. I read about this patch on a couple of other threads. I filed a SR on this and they sent me a driver which also worked but was probably the same thing as the one in 7.2sp3.  --- Quote End ---   Hi, How can I get hold of 7.2sp3 without downloading quartus II?

[Altera_Forum]

Thanks, It works!!

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Make sure you install the ACDS v10.0 without any anti-virus programs running in the background. This is a known issue which results in some (a lot) of the files not being written to your drive during installation. The driver in 10.0 works with Windows 7 without you haven't to turn off driver signing while loading Windows.  --- Quote End ---    Please forgive a newbie type question, and maybe I am in the wrong thread - but here goes..  I want to use the free Quartus II USB stand alone programming software (V10) on our service engineers' computers. I downloaded it and did a trial install on an XP machine in the lab. It installs OK, but when started it demands a license... It claims it can't connect to the web to get one. It will start in demo mode but if I do "Help/About" I get an internal error and it crashes.  So - Questions: A: Does the stand alone free USB blaster software really need a license on each machine??  B: The lab PC has Sophos running. Could this be the problem.  Sorry this isn't Win7 specific, but I couldn't find a closer thread in a rush..  Edit: After a fight I uninstalled it. Switched off Sophos and reinstalled it without virus checking. Unfortunately, no change. It still demands a license and still gives me no way to get one...   ????  Pete

[Altera_Forum]

Are you sure you downloaded the Web Edition rather than Subscription Edition? I seem to remember downloading the wrong version a while back and when installing it asked me for a license. I have not seen that with any version of the Web Edition that I have installed (although I have not installed v10). Here's the link to the download page: 

 https://www.altera.com/download/software/quartus-ii-we

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--- Quote Start ---  Are you sure you downloaded the Web Edition rather than Subscription Edition? I seem to remember downloading the wrong version a while back and when installing it asked me for a license. I have not seen that with any version of the Web Edition that I have installed (although I have not installed v10).   --- Quote End ---    Thanks for the suggestion. I uninstalled whatever I had on the machine and went through the web-edition setup. You can just select the programmer component instead of the whole set of modules. So far so good.  However when finally unfolded and installed the result is exactly the same as my previous attempt: It comes up with an "Evaluation Mode" window and select 1 of 3 options. 30day eval, but you can't actually program chips with it. Or auto web licence retrieval, except it won't connect to the web even though it was just downloaded from the web. Final option is a valid licence file, which I don't have.  This must be a bug surely. What's with the licence on a hardware programmer? The USB device programmer code is no good to you unless you are already committed to Altera FPGAs... I certainly don't want to install the entire design suite on our service laptops !   Also if I run it in 30 day evaluation mode and do Help/about (a fairly benign request) I still get "Internal error, subsystem Quit.... etc etc ... sys_mdb.dll could not be found", plus some stack trace stuff. After that it bombs out   Any ideas, anyone?  Grrr :-)  Pete

[Altera_Forum]

File a Service Request. You will be able to get a patch. This is a known issue in V10.0.

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Thanks, It works!!  --- Quote End ---       I do not find that the 32bit USB Blaster driver works in Windows 7. I get "Windows was unable to install your USB Blaster".  Please let me know which version worked for you. Thanks

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How can I get hold of 7.2sp3 without downloading quartus II? 

 I have Quartus II 8.0 in win7 x64 and the driver instal bat is not signed. I cant install another quartus because I'm in an Univesity, and a I cant. can anyone sendme the 7.2sp3driver?

[Altera_Forum]

The Altera FTP site (ftp://ftp.altera.com/outgoing/release) probably has what you're looking for, though I think updating to 10.0 would be a better option. 

 Cheers,  --slacker

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I found a way to install unsigned drivers. 

 open cmd as administrator: and execute commands  bcdedit / set on testsigning bcdedit / set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS  then reset the computer install the drivers normally.  to finalize, execute bcdedit / set off testsigning  worked perfectly