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Nighthawk X4S R7800 Flashing amber power light intermittently with eSATA white light. Amber, white
This is a Netgear Nighthawk x4s ac2600 smart wifi router model R7800 with the latest firmware. Router is flashing back and forth from the Amber power LED to the White eSATA LED. Back and forth contin...
From user manual:
"Power LED Stays Amber When the router is turned on, the Power LED lights amber for up to two minutes and then turns white. If the LED does not turn white, this indicates a problem with the router. If the Power LED is still amber three minutes after you turn on power to the router, do the following: • Cycle the power to see if the router recovers. • Press and hold the Reset button to return the router to its factory settings. For more information, see Factory Settings on page 171. If the error persists, a hardware problem might be the cause. Contact technical support at netgear.com/support."
Cant find anything regarding the eSata LED and it's interaction with the Power LED.
Yeah, I am kind of disappointed. That was a worthless conversation. I purchased the router May 26th 2016 and it died yesterday. The guy's only solution was to sell me a new one with better features for retail price. Wow.... not impressed Netgear. He was claiming that it is because I live in Florida with weather. It was on the same surge protector as my modem and it didn't get fried. I purchased a refurbished wndr3700 years ago and it is still working. Its grossly underpowered but wow quality has changed as many storms as it has gone through.
Hi benprowley,
Please try to load the firmware via TFTP.
https://kb.netgear.com/22688/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP
The only problem with this solution is that, when I plug the computer in via a wired connection it does not see any network. The only way I can talk with the switch is over wifi. Will this solution work over wifi?
Are you setting a Static IP address on the wired connection? I believe you have to set a static IP address on the PC to maintain the connection, you can't use DHCP as theres nothing to get from the router. The DHCP server is not working.
What I mean is when I plug my ethernet connection in from my computer to the internet rj45 port or any of the other rj45 ports it comes up as not being connected in my LAN and I cannot do what the instructions say to do. any ideas?