In reviewing the drivers download page it appears there are NO drivers for Windows 10 for the USB based Blaster programmer cables. Is this really true? Ethernet Blaster Download Cable. Download Center Get the complete suite of Intel® design tools. Operating System Windows Linux. Quartus / USB Blaster / Windows 10. I'm seeing the BSoD immediately after trying to load the driver for the (generic) USB Blaster. I'm using the Altera driver.

I started playing around with FPGA development using the Terasic DE0 development board recently and the first problem I encountered was the installation of the USB blaster driver. As far as I know there is no problem in installing the driver on Windows 7 but if you are using Windows 8 or 8.1 then you probably ran into the problem of Windows not allowing you to install unsigned drivers. I lost a significant amount of time to make the driver work on Windows 8.1 so to speed things up for you, here is what you do. First, you need to obtain the driver to be installed. You probably already have it if you installed Quartus II, it comes with the installation. Cubase 6.5 Crack Elicenser. On my system it is located in: C: altera 15.0 quartus drivers usb-blaster Now, if you follow the instruction from you probably get to step 8 of the instructions after which you are not prompted with a window mentioned on step 9.

This is due to the fact that Windows 8 doesn’t allow you to install unsigned drivers by default so you need to disable this security option. Press Windows key and type in “Change advanced startup options”, and enter the options.

You should see the following window (click on the picture to enlarge). Advanced startup options – Recovery – Advanced startup Go to Recovery and under Advanced startup locate Restart now. Before you click on it save whatever stuff you need to save since the restart is (almost) immediate. After you click on the button you will be prompted with a window providing you with a few options. Choose: Troubleshoot ->Advanced options ->Startup Settings ->Restart After restarting you will be prompted with another window that will provide you some other options.

Choose: 7) Disable driver signature enforcement Having all that in mind, now press the Restart now button from the screenshot above. After restart try to install the USB blaster driver. Plug in the device, fire up Device Manager, locate the USB-blaster device and click on Update Driver Software.