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Appendix A—
Installing the ByteBlaster
Driver
Introduction
If you are using either Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, the Altera
ByteBlaster driver must be installed before you can configure the EPXA1
development board using the flash programmer. This section explains
how to install the ByteBlaster driver from the qutilities directory, either
for Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000, depending on which operating
system you are using.
Installing the
ByteBlaster
Driver on a
Windows NT
System
Follow the steps below to install the Altera ByteBlaster driver on a
Windows NT 4.0 system:
1. Open the control panel.
2. Select Multimedia.
3. Select the Devices tab.
4. Select Add.
5. Select Unlisted or Updated Driver from the List of Drivers list box
and choose OK.
6. If the Quartus II software is installed, type or browse to \<path to
Quartus II>\drivers in the text box and choose OK.
1 If the Quartus II software is not installed, but the qutilities
package is installed, type or browse to \<path to
qutilities>\drivers in the text box and choose OK.
1 If neither the Quartus II software nor the qutilities package is
installed, utilities must be installed before installing the
ByteBlaster driver.
7. Choose OK again in the Install Driver window.
8. Select Altera ByteBlaster in the Add Unlisted or Updated Driver
window and choose OK.
9. Restart the PC.