NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
R7000 - Unable to update firmware
Evening all, I'm having a little trouble with a Netgear R7000 Router. I purchased this a couple of years ago, but it was never actually used. In a nutshell, it would appear that the router is o...
Unfortunately, it didn't like it. Error saying Firmware file was incorrect.
Really scratching my head with this one.
Ok last resort will be this:
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
Need to press the reset button for 30 seconds then release, then it send to PUT the command and upload the FW.
Make sure you enable tftp: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-tftp-windows-10
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
Try nmrpflash:
https://github.com/jclehner/nmrpflash