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R7000 stuck in bootloop
Hi everyone,
I wanted to setup my old Nighthawk R7000 AC1900 as an accesspoint today. It worked when I first plugged it in. Wifi light came on etc. I then gave it a quick reset (held the reset for 7 secs until it restarted) and then uncoupled it. I'm guessing it wasn't done resetting yet as it's now stuck in a bootloop.It just starts up with a solid amber power LED, and restarts every minute or so into the same state.
What I've tried so far:
1. Hard reset (30/30/30)
This did nothing basically.
2. Pushing the firmware chk file to it over TFTP following the support page's steps.
It didn't manage to push the file. When pinging it would only return 2 replies and then would become unreachable. Maybe it didn't have enough time/I'm not doing it right.
3. Pushing the firmware with nmrpflash
This one seemed to be succesful at first. It runs through all the steps without giving errors, and then gives me a final message:
Remote finished. Closing connection.
Reboot your device nowThis is in line with the instructions. After this message the power button starts blinking instead of it just being solid, but after a reboot it just continues the bootloop.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
3 Replies
Time to replace this router.
- Hahaha yeah that's what I was afraid of. Bit sad how it went from working to bricked from a quick uncoupling from the power. If this was a new device I would've been very mad honestly.
As a replacement I've just setup an old android phone with USB tethering to work as a source of internet for my PC. Surprised this old phone still manages almost a gigabit down over wifi.You might find a good same model replacement or something different on shopgoodwill. đ
