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Router Unable to Boot, Stuck in Bootloop
Hi all, I am having trouble with my Netgear Nighthawk X6 R8000 currently. I have had this router for 5.5 years (since August 8, 2014) and it is currently running on the latest firmware (1.04....
Issue has been resolved, please see post #5 of this thread:
Guessing the router may have had an update pushed to it that did not go well.
May need to do the famous, on this site, tftp to get it going again.
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
Just a curiosity question. Why don't you leave the router turned on? Doesn't use that much electricity and opens you up to early life failures, just like it is recommended to not turn a PC off. Inrush can damage components.
labatt wrote:
Guessing the router may have had an update pushed to it that did not go well.
May need to do the famous, on this site, tftp to get it going again.
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
You don't need tftp unless it really is impossible to get into the browser graphical user interface to run the update.
Along the same lines, another thought I had was that the last firmware update didn't stuck.
But given the quality of recent updates, rolling back to an earlier version might be worth trying if the latest continues to play up.
labatt wrote:
Just a curiosity question. Why don't you leave the router turned on? Doesn't use that much electricity and opens you up to early life failures, just like it is recommended to not turn a PC off. Inrush can damage components.
Spot on there. It isn't just the "surge effects" but the possibility of connection issues when the thing boots up.
For a while I ran a modem/router (D6400) in model only mode. The boot process after a power cut was so slow that the rest of the network got left behind. Nothing connected. I installed a modem only box instead.
That an HDD causes problems hints at possible problems on that front.