Zephyr samples not working on NRF5280 board

Sounds like this solution worked for others. However, I ran into this, started with an older NRF SDK 2.5.3 , and immediately found any program I flashed would cause the device to no longer seem to be alive (no LED indicators, no com ports discovered, no other expected functionality). I also switched to 2.6.0 eagerly in hope it would help with the BLE Sense. No luck. Same result.

I also followed a few details here for zephyros, to set the BOOT DELAY: XIAO BLE (Sense) — Zephyr Project Documentation

So question:

Thanks in advance. I have had previous experience with the BMD-30 series of chips with custom boards and no issues using the same samples.