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The Nighthawk ax8 8500 power up lights Flash bottom front blue Wi-Fi light goes on but no Wi-fi lights on it in the front and no network shows on any of my devices for it I had it on for 2 days one time had a power outage and it never went back on again it does the same thing I tried resetting it I booted it over and over and over my cousins having the same problem with his if anybody can help me with this thank you
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Does pressing the reset button for 10 seconds then release then wire connect a PC to the router and setup the router using a web browser have any effect?
Might try a different power adapter with same volt and amps...
Its only the power light that comes on?
You might have a corrupt firmware.
You can try recoving it with tftp or nmrpflash.
are you on windows? if so, follow this guide
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
just make sure you enable tftp
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-tftp-windows-10
and here's a 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=R9DLrLQrpaw
and if that doesn't work, you can try using nmrpflash
https://github.com/jclehner/nmrpflash
