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R7450 2600 smart
Router stopped working out of the blue, have rebooted, reset, tried new setup, hard reset for 30 secs and all I have is a blinking white power light, won’t change
Last resort would be to see if Recovery works:
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
Need to press the reset button for 30 seconds then release, then it send to PUT the command and upload the FW.
Make sure you enable tftp: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-tftp-windows-10
Video walk through using a tftp client. Use the built in one for windows 10 though. the video is more of an example of how its done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DLrLQrpawIf not, router needs replacing I would guess.
