ByteBlasterᵀᴹ II, ByteBlasterMVᵀᴹ & ByteBlasterᵀᴹ Driver for Windows NT 4.0

Product Discontinuance Notifications

Intel has discontinued the Quartus® II and MAX+PLUS® II Software. More details are available at Quartus® II and MAX+PLUS® II Software product discontinuance notifications and list of discontinued additional software.

You must install the ByteBlasterMV, ByteBlaster II, or ByteBlaster download cable driver before you can use them to program devices with the Quartus® II software or MAX+PLUS® II software.

You must have system administration (Administrator) privileges to install the ByteBlaster II, ByteBlasterMV, or ByteBlaster download cable drivers.

Driver Installation

  1. Click on the Start menu, choose Settings, and click on Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Multimedia icon in the Control Panel window.
  3. Click the Devices tab.
  4. Click the Add button.
  5. Select Unlisted or Updated Driver from the List of Drivers list box and click OK.
  6. Browse to the drivers directory of your Quartus II software or MAX+PLUS II software installation and click OK.
  7. Click OK in the Install Driver window.
  8. Select Intel® FPGA ByteBlaster or Intel FPGA ByteBlaster II in the Add Unlisted or Updated Driver window and click OK.
  9. Restart the PC.
  10. Complete your installation by setting up programming hardware

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