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Nighthawk XR500 Won’t Factory Reset
Hello, Last night I decided to update my Nighthawk XR500 Gaming Router firmware, while two minutes into the process, internet from the ISP side dropped and stayed out for ~12 hours. Now my router ...
As soon as you sent this I have figured it out.
The steps had me enter and select "cd desktop" and I am such a numb-skull that I had it stored in a folder on the desktop instead of the actual image on the desktop.
Once I put the image on the desktop it was successful and I am now up and working.Thank you everyone who contributed to helping me today!
So you did try "tftp -i 192.168.1.1 put XR500-V2.3.2.134.img" as well?
Try a older version maybe to check? V2.3.2.22
I tend to put the .img file in the same directory as the TFTP program for some ease.
Yes, I did try with the .img as well like you wrote out but was getting same command prompt error.
I will try with an older firmware version through TFTP2 program to see if I have any luck with that.
- If you're getting this error: TFTP can't read from local file then it means that the full file path hasn't been given, once you've done that it should take it
As soon as you sent this I have figured it out.
The steps had me enter and select "cd desktop" and I am such a numb-skull that I had it stored in a folder on the desktop instead of the actual image on the desktop.
Once I put the image on the desktop it was successful and I am now up and working.Thank you everyone who contributed to helping me today!
Glad it was a simple fix!
I'd make a backup in case you have to reflash it and restore it again
