Arduino Nano 33 Sense board failure

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Just received the board today. Running the Arduino IDE on Windows 10. Installed the Arduino_LSM9DS1 library (so that I could access the onboard accelerometer). And, created a very simple sketch that uses the readAcceleration method to grab the accelerometer readings and write them to the serial monitor. So far, so good. Compiled the sketch and then uploaded it. Opened the serial monitor in the IDE and there was no output.

Went back to the IDE to try re-uploading the sketch. On the off chance that the original upload had failed. But, the COM port (on which the Nano was connected) no longer shows up in the IDE. Tried hitting reset on the board. Still no COM port. Tried detaching and re-attaching the USB cable. Still no COM port. Tried re-booting the Windows 10 machine. Still no COM port.

To verify that it wasn’t a cable issue, I plugged in another board and the IDE immediately saw the associated COM port, and, this 2nd board.

So, it appears that this new nano, which just arrived this morning, failed after the first upload…

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That’s a shame; it sounds like you’ve taken the correct troubleshooting steps and it is likely a defective board - head over to https://www.sparkfun.com/returns, fill out those fields on the form and we’ll get a replacement sent out ASAP!