Can't factory reset my Nighthawk X8

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Good morning all,&nbsp;our Netgear R8300 suddenly stopped working while I was not at home a couple of weeks ago. I managed to set my wife up with a backup router.&nbsp;Now that I am home I was trying to perform a factory reset first which doesn't seem to do anything.&nbsp;When performing the factory reset nothing is happening until 13 seconds, then it will light up port LEDs 1 2 and 3 briefly then follows with the rest.&nbsp;after 1 minute or so the only LEDs I see are the power LED being red (orange) and the port I am plugged into the Router in white (currently port 3)&nbsp;No other LEDs are on. After another 2 minutes or so it will again flash all the lights and then also leave the Guest WiFi LED on in white.&nbsp;And this is the current state.&nbsp;The Router doesn't give an IP Address, when assigning a static IP in the default 192.x range it doesn't respond to pings on the default IP (which was never changed).&nbsp;I am not sure at this stage if there is anything else that can be done with this device? It was purchased in 2018 already so no warranty any more unfortunately.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any other suggestions are welcome.&nbsp;Thank you,Stefan&nbsp;

microchip8 · Accepted Answer

This sounds to me like a bricked router. You most likely had the Automatic Firmware Update option on, which isn't really recommended on NG firmware due to its horrible bad state

You can perform a TFTP and see if you can debrick it

https://kb.netgear.com/000059633/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP-client

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Can't factory reset my Nighthawk X8

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