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FLASHING WHITE LIGHTS AND POWER BUTTON FLASHING RED
I see a few other threads with this same issue, but none have any fixes. I have TWO of these units and love them when they are working. Here is issue- After power outage- All lights on front flas...
Power surges, flickering, storms are great at causing havok with electronics. Potentially resetting the device, corrupting firmware, to the point of even wrecking devices.
Plus if you pushed the reset button for >7 seconds, you erased all the settings. This includes the install you did.
You'll need to reinstall and follow the install guides.
Here's where you get the guides.
Thanks.
I will try these steps when I get home. I am concerned that the lights just continue flashing and the power button in back flashes red. It doesn't seem to be responding to anything.
Hopefully it will accept the downloads in it's current state of flashing white LED lights on front and flashing red power LED on back.
sorry, I thought you said you could access the new setup process. If the lights are blinking and its not responding, you can try the tftp recovery procedure.
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
Works well in these instances. If it doesn't, I'd contact support and see about an RMA. to contact support, click on mynetgear, register an account, and then your device.
don't google support. it brings up con/scam sites.