1. Plug in the power and turn on your development board
2. Plug in your Development board or USB Blaster device into a free USB port
3. In Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 go to Start and search for “device manager”
4. Click on Device manager in the search results
5. In device manager find the item list “other devices”
6. Expand that list and there should be “Altera USB-Blaster”
7. Right click on Altera USB-Blaster
   1. Choose Update Driver Software...
8. In the popup choose “Browse my computer for driver software”
9. Click Browse and navigate to the altera folder C:\altera
   1. Make sure the “Include Subfolders” is checked
10. Click next
11. If successful windows will say “Windows has successfully updated your driver software”
12. Click close
13. Back in device manager under Universal Serial Bus Controllers there should be the Altera USB-Blaster
14. Close out of Device manager and you are now ready to program your Development board.

Note: On the DE2-115 there are two USB ports but the one closet to the edge is the USB blaster

Note: It is best to NOT use USB ports that have active power or an “always on” feature as these ports can damage your development board or USB blaster chip