Solid Amber power led

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I am having issues on "rebooting" the Nighthawk extender, as it simply stop working, all wifi leds became blinking, and power led became solid amber. I tried to reset the router several times, but it still stays at the same situation (solid amber power led, and blinking all wifi leds).

Even connected my range extender to my computer with an Ethernet cable, or tried to find the defauld NETGEAR_EXT wifi, and both ways didnt enable me to connect to any internet.

I really dont know what else could I try to make it functional again. Any thoughts? Tks

plemans · Answer

If the power light is solid amber and nothing else is on, its an indicator of either firmware or hardware failure.&nbsp;
You can try recoving it with tftp or nmrpflash. are you on windows? if so, follow this guidehttps://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTPjust make sure you enable tftp https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-tftp-windows-10and 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=R9DLrLQrpawand if that doesn't work, you can try using nmrpflashhttps://github.com/jclehner/nmrpflash

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