Yes, there are tons of utilities to restore the original firmware.
Plus if it's under warranty, they generally will reflash it or send
you one reflashed and add yours to the pile to do. Scrambled firmware
happens with power failures, inproperly secured routers, etc. also, so
it's supported by cisco, etc.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Steve Phariss <
sphariss@gmail.com> wrote:
> I followed this guide (Step 11 in particular as my router would not boot
> up.) I believe I also did the reset thing a couple times as well. I tried
> a lot of things and starting to think the router was a goner... my next step
> was to attempt the Serial port hack and go for a console. that would have
> been ..... interesting.
>
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51486
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:22 AM, mike havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> so how did you fix it?
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Steve Phariss <sphariss@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I had a wrt-600n that I flashed with a wrong version of dd-wrt... It
>>> seemed to be bricked permanently... I was able to find instructions online
>>> that allowed me to reflash to a good version. router is now up and running
>>> fine. All in All it was a pretty easy fix, the hard part was the timing.
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Jason Hayes <jason@jasonhayes.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday 28 January 2010 01:16:58 pm JD Austin wrote:
>>>> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:06 PM, John <jharitos@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> > > You are brave. I'd be scared I'd brick a brand new router.
>>>> >
>>>> > Nah :) DD-WRT is very stable at this point.
>>>> > It's possible but no more possible than it would be later.
>>>> > Always do such a thing plugged directly into the router.
>>>> > Never do it over wireless.
>>>> >
>>>> > Tomato is great also
>>>>
>>>> Would have to give a thumbs up for DD-WRT as well. Had a Linksys WRT54G
>>>> go
>>>> completely haywire on me about a year ago. No amount of fiddling or
>>>> reseting or
>>>> upgrading would get it to work. I flashed it with DD-WRT and the router
>>>> was
>>>> stable and happy for about another year before it completely calved and
>>>> died.
>>>>
>>>> Haven't had the guts to flash the new WRT320N yet.
>>>>
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