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CR4
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Nov 08, 2023
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Recover a bricked Orbi RBR50 - flashing white light

I have an RBR50, which when I try to factory reset, the green power light stays on and will not turn red.

If i have the reset pressed whilst turning on the power, I get the solid red light for a few seconds, then a couple of flashes of the red light, then it turns green again.

 

i have followed the guides on flashing the firmware using tftp and nmrpflash, with no joy yet. - i suspect the reason is that my PC is not seeing the router.

I have tried connecting to all 3 of the ethernet ports.

 

I make a direct ethernet connection to my windows 11 PC and change my network adaptor settings to static, 192.168.1.10 with DNS at 192.168.1.1

 

if i try to ping 192.168.1.1 I get no response - although the network adaptor says it is connected.

 

Does this mean my lan ports on the router are nfg ?

 

 

 

  • CR4's avatar
    CR4
    Dec 31, 2023

    Ok, solved it.

    I took it apart, connected a USB to serial adapter, and through putty, discovered the mac address, model number and other settings had been wiped, in what I assume was a failed firmware update.

    these were updated and firmware flashed successfully.

     

    i wont include a link here, but there are lots of posts in this forum on how to do it.