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Solid Amber power led
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...
If the power light is solid amber and nothing else is on, its an indicator of either firmware or hardware failure.
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