Since this morning I had problems with connecting to my WiFi so I rebooted the router. Unfortunately it doe not come up anymore and the LEDs (almost all) are blinking in a certain pattern.Maybe firmware is corrupt? Does anybody have any idea how ro solve this? Thanks!

Thanks all for your help. I decided to throw my 2 year old router in the garbage can. Netgear will not help me, because it's too old and indeed no TFTP client will help because its stuck in a restart loop.

R7000 does nit start anymore. LEDs keep blinking

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charli3
Aspirant
Oct 11, 2020
Extra information: The reset button did nothing. No changing in LED blinking. I also added an animated gif so you see the pattern.
- microchip8
  Master
  Oct 11, 2020
  Your router was most likely set to auto update the firmware and in the process got bricked instead. You should turn that option off once you hopefully recover the router using TFTP
  
  https://kb.netgear.com/000059633/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP-client
  - charli3
    Aspirant
    Oct 11, 2020
    Thank you very much for your answer microchip8! Unfortunately the mac version of the TFTP client I need is outdated and does not work on my laptop with MAC OS 10.15.7 . Any other ideas how I can use TFTP to send the new firmware?

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R7000 does nit start anymore. LEDs keep blinking