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XR500 - Power flashing white & trying to reflash firmware to connect to FIOS


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All,

Recently moved and migrated from Spectrum service to FIOS service. Tried to use my XR500 as the router with FIOS and noticed that I had a flashing white power LED. Upon further investigation, turns out the firmware might be bricked. Here's the rub - I tried to reflash the XR500 using TFTPD64 with some directions circa 2020 (specifically this video https://youtu.be/_OYNEZuyId0) but to no avail. Per the directions, I've even been UNABLE to ping the router as it's giving me GENERAL FAILURE via the cmd line. I'm at my wits end and don't know what to do...

Any tips, tricks, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know what you need!

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I've tried to access the interface on my laptop and I wasn't able to get into 192.168.1.1 (nor could I ping it, which I found weird). Not sure if it is some weird windows 11 setting on this predator laptop that prevents me from doing so, but it may also prevent me from accessing the interface.

 

Will try your instructions and let you know, thanks!

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10 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Keep us posted!

So - as requested, somehow the TFTP worked and my router was finally showing solid white on the power & that the 2.5/5Ghz were up. Hooray! I left to drink some beer and walk the dog and it seemed like that, magically, fixed it while the NMRP was running. Got into the interface / did setup. All is well...except now on my desktops I cannot log into the default IP anymore 192.168.1.1 and get this error image.png.4ccc5c5d40773e06067f8a77639abd82.png - any thoughts?

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