nRF Connect Error "NRF_ERROR_TIMEOUT"

[Diogo]

I am trying to use the nRF Connect v1.0 RC with the pca10040 board. I followed the instructions of your [page] and when i open the serial port i got an error (Error occurred opening serial port. (NRF_ERROR_TIMEOUT)) as shown in the attached figure. I programmed the “connectivity_115k2_with_s132_2.0.1.hex” file by two ways: via drag and drop and by nrfjprog tool (version 8.4 and also 8.0) and i programmed ble example applications (with and without uart initialisation) with Keil uVision5. I noticed that the board receives the ASCII characters “*” “NUL” “ENQ” “NUL” “*” “*” and not respond any data. Any suggestion what i might be doing wrong or not doing?

[Bjørn Inge]

Hi Diogo,
from what you describe it sounds like you are doing things correctly.
Just to clarify, when you say you programmed ble example applications from Keil, you are doing it to a second board and not on top of the connectivity application?
What Windows version are you running? Are you running windows in a virtual machine?