The LED display at the front of the router is the best way to determine what type of brick you have and its recovery method.
Without releasing reset button, disconnect power cord.Disconnect the router from UTP cables (not the power cable).To determine if the router is bricked, carefully follow the steps at note 6 of the peacock thread: īefore you continue below, make sure you've first tried a hard reset to revive your router:
These techniques may be useful in these cases also. It is also unfortunately possible to configure your router in ways which make it dead to the world. Don't worry, there are a number of things you can try to get your router working again before giving up and living with the fact that your router is now a paperweight. So, you're afraid you've bricked your router.
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THIS IS AN OLD PAGE THAT MOSTLY APPLIES TO BROADCOM MIPSR1 AND MIPSR2 ROUTERS MORE UP TO DATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT NOTE 6 OF THE PEACOCK ANNOUNCEMENT (LINKED BELOW) AND THE WIKI ARTICLES ON SERIAL RECOVERY AND JTAG.