Unable to flash nRF9160-DK with Quick Start or nrfprog in VSCode

Hi,

I have a nRF9160-DK (PCA10090, 1.0.0, 2020.50) that I am trying to flash with the Modem Shell using the Quick Start app on a M1 Max MacBook Pro, running macOS 14.5.

2024-07-15T15:29:23.538Z INFO Initialising nrfutil module: device
2024-07-15T15:29:23.540Z DEBUG Started watching devices
2024-07-15T15:29:24.301Z INFO Using nrfutil-device core version: 7.13.0
2024-07-15T15:29:24.390Z INFO Using nrfutil-device version: 2.1.1
2024-07-15T15:29:24.390Z INFO Using nrf-device-lib version: 0.17.5
2024-07-15T15:29:24.390Z INFO Using nrfjprog DLL version: 10.24.0
2024-07-15T15:29:24.390Z INFO Using JLink version: JLink_V7.94e
2024-07-15T15:29:28.545Z DEBUG Selected device: nRF9160 DK
2024-07-15T15:29:28.553Z DEBUG Changed step: info
2024-07-15T15:29:29.875Z DEBUG Changed step: rename
2024-07-15T15:29:30.611Z DEBUG Changed step: program
2024-07-15T15:29:33.566Z ERROR [jlink] [NRFJPROG][Client][000960027913] Encountered error -102: Command read_device_family executed for 130 milliseconds with result -102
2024-07-15T15:29:33.569Z ERROR [jlink] [NRFJPROG][Worker][000960027913] An unknown error.
2024-07-15T15:31:24.629Z ERROR [jlink] [NRFJPROG][Client][000960027913] Encountered error -102: Command read_device_family executed for 128 milliseconds with result -102
2024-07-15T15:31:24.649Z ERROR [jlink] [NRFJPROG][Worker][000960027913] An unknown error.

I have also tried to flash this device using Linux on another laptop, but that yielded a very similiar error.

Also, while the device is connected via USB, macOS complains about a storage drive called JLINK being removed about every second.

Is the DK broken? Are there any recovery steps?

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