night hawk R7000p firmware upgrade failure

OS is Windows 10. I noticed that the nighthawk R7000P AC2300 had an firmware upgrade notice. the upgrade was for the 1.3.1.44 version.

 

I don't remember what the old version was , I know the last numbers were 1.23.

 

I closed out all the programs. went to the netgear gui on the taskbar and had clicked on prompts to download the firmware.

 

the download wasn't successful. it tells me that the d/l failed.

 

the red lights (power) were slowly blinking.

 

I have tried resetting it. did not work.

 

I have also tried to log on from the firefox browser using the www,routerlogin.net link. that did not work.

 

it appears that the router has been bricked.