nRF9160 development kit not detected in "Connected Devices" view

RE: nRF9160 development kit not detected in "Connected Devices" view

dejans — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:35:42 GMT

Hi,

Can you show the output of "nrfutil device --version"?

It seems that legacy USB drivers are needed. You can look at prerequisites. You can try to install Segger USB driver for J-Link manually from command line using the command

JLink_Windows_V860_x86_64.exe -InstUSBDriver=1

Best regards,
Dejan

RE: nRF9160 development kit not detected in "Connected Devices" view

Ben_Sc — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:46:19 GMT

Hello,

I tried with "Install legacy USB driver for J-Link" unchecked as well and result is still same. Development kit is not detected.

J link driver status shown is the output of USB driver status check.

I tried with Quick start guide as well.

Following are the screenshot from quick start guide usage and log file

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../2025_2D00_09_2D00_08T15_5F00_29_5F00_05.548Z_2D00_log.txt

I tried with programmer and tried to select device and it shows that there are issues with USB drivers.

Overall, I understand this is due to USB driver issue but not able to resolve, even though I tried to install legacy drivers and multiple versions of segger J link software.

RE: nRF9160 development kit not detected in "Connected Devices" view

dejans — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:47:20 GMT

Hi,

Can you try to perform installation when "Install legacy USB driver for J-Link" is left unchecked? Do you observe any change?

Which command output is shown in the screenshot below?

Have you tried to use Quick Start Guide to start working with nRF9160?

Best regards,
Dejan