Alchitry Au V2 Alchitry Loader doesn't see board

General
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Setup:
Windows 11
Vivado 2024.2 Installed ==> Verified I can indeed program BIT files successfully
FTDI Driver installed

Downloaded and ran FT_PROG and Manufacturer says Xilinx and Product Description says “Alchitry Au V2”
Device Output
Device: 0 [Loc ID:0x1B21]

Word MSB
0000: 0801 0403 6010 0700 3280 0008 0000 0E9A …...2....... 0008: 1EA8 0EC6 0000 0000 0056 0003 584A 6C41 .........V..XJlA 0010: 6863 7469 7972 4100 636C 6968 7274 2079 hctiyrA.clihrt y 0018: 7541 5620 0032 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 uAV .2.......... 0020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0028: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0038: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0048: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 030E 0058 0069 .............X.i 0050: 006C 0069 006E 0078 031E 0041 006C 0063 .l.i.n.x...A.l.c 0058: 0068 0069 0074 0072 0079 0020 0041 0075 .h.i.t.r.y. .A.u 0060: 0020 0056 0032 030E 0030 0030 0030 0030 . .V.2...0.0.0.0 0068: 0030 0030 0302 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .0.0............ 0070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0078: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 602B ..............+

Alchitry Loaded does not see board.

Alchitry Labs loads but doesn’t seem to do anything while my board is plugged in:

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Any help on how I can get the Alchitry Loader to work so I can program the FPGA flash?

Thanks
Tim

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Never mind, apparently I was using the 2.0.0 alpha version of Alchitry tools. Once I downloaded the 2.0.34-BETA tools everything works.

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Glad it was an easy fix. Did you find the link for that in an old blog post? I’ll have to update them to point to the current page.

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I think I wasn’t sure where to find the download so I googled something like Alchitry v2 download and it came up with a blog post discussing the V2 alpha stuff so I ran with it.
I guess I didn’t realize I just needed to click on the Labs link at the top and the download link is at the top post on that page.
Tim