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DLMSU
Aspirant
Nov 16, 2017
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R7000 bricked, serial won't recover it

So I had a working R7000 that was several firmwares old, tried to use the web portal to update to the newest 1.0.9.12.   Router went to restart, bricked.  Every 30 seconds or so the router restarts...
  • William10a's avatar
    Nov 16, 2017

    If you can gain access to the routers main board you may be able to run a nvram clear command and reflash the router's firmware, if that will not happy the router may have a hardware issue.

    What the cause the router to be bricked in the first place?