Power white Light blinking after firmware update

[Eddy0406]

Hello,

I was doing the firmware update from 0.9.34 to the 0.9.42 and since then the power light on the router started blinking. I did the reset by pressing the reset botton 30 second and plug in power back and no luck.

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> I was doing the firmware update from 0.9.34 to the 0.9.42 [...]

   "doing" how, exactly?  "0.9.34" or "1.0.9.34" (and so on)?

> [...[ I did the reset by pressing the reset botton 30 second and plug
> in power back and no luck.

   Not a clear description of what you did, or what happened when you
did it.  I'd expect the reset button to have a greater effect when the
router is not powered off.
 
   Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation.  Get the User Manual.  Look for "Factory Settings".

   You may be a candidate for the TFTP recovery scheme.  See, for
example:

      https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1622096

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> I was doing the firmware update from 0.9.34 to the 0.9.42 [...]

   "doing" how, exactly?  "0.9.34" or "1.0.9.34" (and so on)?

> [...[ I did the reset by pressing the reset botton 30 second and plug
> in power back and no luck.

   Not a clear description of what you did, or what happened when you
did it.  I'd expect the reset button to have a greater effect when the
router is not powered off.
 
   Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation.  Get the User Manual.  Look for "Factory Settings".

   You may be a candidate for the TFTP recovery scheme.  See, for
example:

      https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1622096

[Eddy0406]

How?  i logged on to router and click on" firmware update available". The firmware downloaded and started to install. After finish installing, the router rebooted and from there, the power white light started flashing . After a while, i pressed the reset bottom as some body mentioned on this community group but not luck. I am thinking to buy another brand router as this router is giving me dropping signal problem. I thought with the new firmware, it would remediate the problem.  Thank you,

[myersw]

If the r7000 is within return window do it. Get something else from a different manufacturer as Netgear does not seem to be able to put out a good firmware build for any of the popular routers right now. They used to be solid vendor and my go to, now I stay away from and have sold my r8000 and r8000p and moved on to different vendor. 

[antinode]

>    You may be a candidate for the TFTP recovery scheme.  See, for
> example:
>
>       https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1622096

   Still true.

[Eddy0406]

Thank you antinode,

It did work with your last suggestion. The router is back and running fine.