Maxplus + Byteblaster not available

[Andreas1980]

HI,

I installed Maxplus2 10.2 full version on windows XP like I ever did, then the programmer drivers, then the windows drivers - add hardware - sound/gaming/... - have disk, win 2000 Byteblaster.

After a restart of the system, there was no Byteblaster2-Entry in Altera. Maybe I forgot something.

Thanks, Andreas

[FvM]

Hi,
is it 32-Bit Windows XP? Byte Blaster driver doesn't run under 64-Bit OS.

[Andreas1980]

HI,

yes, sure, it's 32 Bit XP. I bought many Notebooks with 32 Bit XP and installed the Programmer Driver, maxplus2+ and the windows2000 driver of byteblaster and selected byteblaster (Under Add hardware - sound/video/gaming - the driver is there) but I am facing the same erroor everywhere. That means I did something wrong, but I really don't know what (In my sence I did the same as allways). The problem is, that my old notebook with the correct setup is defect and I am not able to set up a new one. 

Please find the attached screenshots.

As you can see there is no Windows XP Professional 64 Bit, it's just Windows XP Professional and in Windows Device Manager you can see that the windows driver for Byteblaster is installed.

I also tried many different settings of the com port - it didn't work.

And in maxplus2 there is no hardware selected. On my last notebook there was Byteblaster II available under hardware setup. Is there any way to add byteblaster2 in maxplus2?

I have many systems running with my maxplus+ System. (FPGA)

I hope you can help me.

Thanks,

Andreas

[FvM]

Him,
unfortunately I don't have an active 32-Bit system with MAX+plus II running presently. And I'm not working with devices stuck to MAX+ since 20 years. I might be able to setup WinXP system for test.

Other question in the meantime, what kind of LPT port are you using?

Regards
Frank  

[Andreas1980]

HI Frank,

it would be fine, if you could try this. I tried the setup on four notebooks with parallel ports: One Lenovo one IBM, one Fujitsu Siemens and one Roda.

Parallel Port config: I tried ECP, EPP, Standard bidirectional, Starting Addressses 0x278, 0x378, 3BC … Allways the same error on all notebooks.

Maybe it helps you when I thell you my configs:

All notebooks are Windows XP 32 and have a parallel port (RAM is between 2GB and 4GB).

From the orig CD:

First: I selected programer only

Second: I selected Full/Flexlm/… installieren

Then I told Windows that I have a Byteblaster:

Control Panel – Hardware – add new Hardware – is connected – Audio/Video/Gamingcontroller – Have disk – c:\maxplus2\drivers\win200

In MaxPlus+ I do the following:

File – open – the GDF-File

File – Project – set Project to current file

(Maybe File – Hirarchy Top before).

Maxplus2 – Compiler – Start – when ready:

Maxplus2 – Programmer

File – Select Programing File – (Select the pof file because the sof file doesn’t work).

And now back tot he programmer dialog. Select program on the left side – that’s I always did before, but now the program button on the left is grayed out becaulse of no hardware selected. And when I click on Options – Hardware setup – I can’t select byteblaster.

I have one colleague with one working notebook for this, but he is 2 car hours away.

He came to me and could connect to my programmer, select Byteblaster II and updated a program on my processor.

But 2 hours driving (one direction) is a long way and he also doesn’t have an idea what I did wrong.

The parallel port mode of my colleague is ECP, but I think on my old lenovo notebook I just had standard and selected the starting address of 0x278 or 0x378 – and this also worked well.

If you need anything from me, or I should try something, please tell me.

It would be very nice from you, if you could help me.

Thank you so much!

Regards,

Andreas