Bricked Netgear Nighthawk x8

nimdahos

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Nov 20, 2016
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Hello community,
I bought one router Netgear Nighthawk x8 in eBay one month ago, but three days ago began with problems :(.

Suddenly, in the morning; router began to reboot constantly, a infinite loop that do unusable the router: not assign ip by dhcp, computer clients no recognize when I put a static IP to get a ping response... and wifi connects and disconnects.

I tries restart with a clip, pressing the button for 7, 15, 30 and other combinations to made a hard reset, but nothing.

Power supply is not a problem. I has read Netgear forum and other users have the same problem. I don't know how solve it.

Will be a hardware issue, or a problem with the firmware?

Pd: power light is white, and after a fee seconds, is amber... other lights on and off, as blue lights of four antennas.

I must claim warranty, or it is solucionable?
 
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Likely is hardware especially if it worked fine for a long time and since you have reset it factory settings its not like a configuration option is causing it.

You might be able to load newer firmware but when they are unstable you may not get the firmware loaded.

If you bought it on ebay there likely is no warranty.
Likely is hardware especially if it worked fine for a long time and since you have reset it factory settings its not like a configuration option is causing it.

You might be able to load newer firmware but when they are unstable you may not get the firmware loaded.

If you bought it on ebay there likely is no warranty.
 
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