[crackface]

So it looks like I need to unbrick my R7000.

I hooked up serial cable, then ethernet cable, and connected via putty to get black window with green cursor. I power up router, get through some screen text and hit CTRL-C until I get to a CFE> prompt (after it says Startup canceled).

I then try and TFTP the stock firmware I have for this unit by typing the following command:

tftp -i 192.168.1.1 put R7000-V1.0.4.30_1.1.67.chk

It sits there for maybe a minute, and then says the folowing:
Timeout occurred
Connect request failed

No firewall enabled. No Antivirus. Fresh new install of Windows 7. Router IP pings fine.

For the heck of it, I tried using putty to extract the user name and password (my original issue was stock firmware would not accept any username/password combo), using the commands nvram get http_username and nvram get http_passwd. I got a crazy long string of characters for each, and through Chrome I was able to use it to login, but the GUI interface was messed up, although there was somewhat of a navigation menu (from stock firmware) on the left. I went to see if I could manually load the firmware, but when I clicked on link on left, the page timed out, and now I seem to be unable to connect to the gui again - sometimes it will prompt for login, but I get "connection refused" after punching in the long strings for username and password. Most of the time I don't even get prompted for credentials.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?

[Ah-Pin-Kor]

Did you invoke tftpd on the router side before using tftp client from the PC?

http://myopenrouter.com/article/how-debrick-or-recover-netgear-r7000-r6300v2-or-r6250-wi-fi-routers

[crackface]

Thank you. I'm an idiot for missing that part. Much appreciated...