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warsawtech's avatar
Jun 07, 2019
Solved

BR500 still resetting itself back to factory defaults

Okay still looking for some answers on this issue. In the last three weeks our BR 500 has reset itself 4 times. Yesterday it did it twice in a six hour span.

I already did the standard playbook of hit reset button, blow current firmware on AGAIN, reconfigure it fresh at 4:30 PM yesterday, at 10 PM it reset itself back to factory default again. 

Wondering if Netgear put something in the firmware to save troubleshooting time and it does it own reset and reboot for you.

  • JohnC_V's avatar
    JohnC_V
    Jun 17, 2019

    warsawtech,

     

    We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. I hope that the replacement unit may fix your issue immediately.

     

    Regards,

     

    JohnCarloV

    NETGEAR Community Team

4 Replies

  • I was a few days late in submitting a ticket and my 90 days were up. Out of desparation I went ahead and purchased a one year service contract. One phone call and I had a RMA and another one coming.

    Tricky way to get more money out of me since things hadn't been right for quite awhile and support sucked until I purchased a service contract

    • JohnC_V's avatar
      JohnC_V
      NETGEAR Moderator

      warsawtech,

       

      We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. I hope that the replacement unit may fix your issue immediately.

       

      Regards,

       

      JohnCarloV

      NETGEAR Community Team

      • warsawtech's avatar
        warsawtech
        Tutor

        Well it has just been 4 days, but no problems YET. I hope this solves the issue. My concern is that I need to deploy around 10 of this model around the country (US) where having it reset itself is going to leave me with some very mad clients.

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