Netgear night hawk R7000 power led stays orange no boot

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J5ive wrote:
Netgear nighthawk r7000 will not boot only has orange power light that stays orange and white LED on Wi-Fi but cannot access. I have tried flashing via tftp and uart serial connection. It does show up as an unidentified network when plugged in via Ethernet but I cannot do anything with it

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If it still has the orange power light, the firmware is corrupt.

There is more severe, recovery reset, that you could try:

• Press reset for 30 seconds
• Keep pressing reset while removing power
• Keep pressing reset for another 30 seconds while apply power

If that fails, you are back into TFTP country.

How to upload firmware to a NETGEAR router using Windows TFTP | Answer | NETGEAR Support

This isn't the easiest operation, so if you are forced to use it, you could try a web search to find videos that guide you through the process.

Different hardware, same approach.

Then there is

GitHub - jclehner/nmrpflash: Netgear Unbrick Utility