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Tutor

Jul 30, 2021

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ORBI RBK53- satellite pulsing white....

I have an 2-RBS50, and a RBR50. All were running firmware V2.7.3.22. Had a power outage in a storm yesterday that lasted all of 5-10 seconds. Router and satellites rebooted, but one of the s...

mhiyer
Jul 31, 2021
SUCCESS!!!

so first completely bricked it by pressing reset and holidng it, turing power off, then turned back on. Power LED flashing red. so retried again upload to 192.168.1.1. Worked, and rebooted. Kept flashing white. unplugged ethernet and let it sit. Suddenly, light turned blue. Was able to reconnect to my old satellite and router w/ all the settings. Followed the directions in :
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/How-to-unbrick-the-Nighthawk-R7000-using-OS-X-and-TFTP/td-p/1643943

Thanks for your help FURRYe38!

Guru - Experienced User

Jul 30, 2021

Did you reset the RBS only or both RBS and RBR?

Tutor

Jul 30, 2021

Only the flashing RBS. Other RBS and RBR were untouched. Nervous to reset those and fry the whole system

FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 30, 2021
Is the 2nd RBS listed in the RBRs connected devices page? If it's seen there, remove it using the remove button no the web page. Then reboot the RBR and allow it to come to ready. Turn ON the RBS and when it's pulsating WHITE, hit the sync button on the RBS then RBR. Do this with the this one RBS in same room as the RBR...
- mhiyer
  Tutor
  Jul 30, 2021
  by 2nd RBS, do you mean the one that's still working? That shows up in the connected devices. The one that is flashing oringally showed in connected devices. I then removed it from there and hard-reset it to try and sync it as a new satellite. It unfotuantely stayed in the flashing white mode. It never got to the steady white mode to be able to get it to sync with the RBR....
  - FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jul 30, 2021
    No, the 2nd RBS thats NOT working...
    
    Does it re-appear in the RBR after you attempted to reconnected it even though its WHITE? If it's in the RBRs web page, can you connect it it's IP address?
    
    You might do this, factory reset the RBS, don't re-sync it. Remove it from the RBR. Connect 1 wired PC to the back of the RBS and wait about 5 minutes. Try too connect it's web page at 192.168.1.250. If you can, I'd re-send the FW file to the RBS again.