[Wesley]

I accidentally bricked my R7000. The power light turns solid white after booting up, but no other lights except for the LAN I have a laptop plugged in on.

I've tried flashing the stock netgear firmware via windows's tftp and tftp2, but neither has worked. I've done a 30-30-30 reset, but nothing changed. When pinged from the LAN there is no response.

Any ideas/tips/suggestions?

If not, can you recommend a good debricking service?

[Malachi]

Try serial recovery.
If you don't feel up to it, I could try if you want.

[Wesley]

I've tried, but haven't had any success. How do you want it shipped?

[Malachi]

Well if you tried serial and it didn't work, I don't know if it can be fixed.
It's not supported by jtag.
Are you getting any output from serial? Are you sure everything is hooked up properly?

[Wesley]

I don't have a good serial cable, so I have no confidence that it was hooked up properly. And I couldn't get any output from the serial either.

[Malachi]

If you are willing to pay for two way shipping with no guarantee, pm me and I'll give you my address.
You'd only need to sent the router. No power supply or antenna.

[BobLoblaw1122]

[wnorris]

Have you tried to ping it? If you bricked it trying to load Tomato from DD-WRT than the below may work.

Give this a try:
1) run router and wait 2-3
2) push and hold wifi on/off button for 25 secs - this will enable a "backdoor" access to the router.
3) use putty and connect via telnet on port 233 and log in to router without password
4) run command: nvram get http_password (login`s value: nvram get http_username)
5) use result as password
6) when you log in to tomato remember to erase nvram
7) do other steps from INSTRUCTIONS file.

[Wesley]

The router won't respond to pings and it doesn't ask for login information when I go to 192.268.1.1 . It just times out.

[Failure404]