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I think my device its bricked, firmware upgrade fails for no reason (no outage or poweroff computer ). Cronology was the next: "Easy smart configuration utility" warn me about firmware upgrade, I downloaded and start the procedure, unzip file with winrar, select firmware updgrade, choose file and start, after some seconds i see the message "firmware upgrade fails for unknow reason" and say to upgrade from web.
Now, all lights are off, reset button don't do anything, and Easy smart configuration utility doesnt find any device, obviusly there are not any web in switch ip
I try to restart with no result. Device works like a dumb switch without lights.
Any advice after to claim RMA??, this unit have only one day.
@raxor I have in the end been able to achieve a good result on a BRICKED SG108E v1.
Before you start, step 2 is probably better on a Linux machine to achive NMAP scan over the sw 192.168.0.1
- Configure network interface with an IP on the same subnet
IP = 192.168.0.10
NETMASK = 255.255.255.0
GW = 192.168.0.1
( after that, try to ping to switch ip 192.168.0.1 if you reach the host, continue to next step )
2. From linux machine, execute this command (install it if you don't have: sudo apt install nmap)
3. Once you are done, execute: sudo nmap -Pn -sS -sV 192.168.0.1
4. With the results on screen you can see something like this:
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PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
80/tcp open http
1 service unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the service/version, please submit the following fingerprint at https://nmap.org/cgi-bin/submit.cgi?new-service :
SF-Port80-TCP:V=7.80%I=7%D=10/30%Time=5F9C8F79%P=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu%r(Get
SF:Request,28C,"HTTP/1\.1\x20200\x20OK\r\nConnection:\x20close\r\nContent-
SF:Type:\x20text/html\r\n\r\n<html\x20style=\"display:none\">\n<head>\n<me
SF:ta\x20HTTP-EQUIV=\"Content-Type\"\x20CONTENT=\"text/html;\x20charset=bi
SF:g5\">\n<title>TP-LINK\x20Web-Smart\x20Switch</title>\n</head>\n<framese
SF:t\x20cols=\"0,\x20250,\*\">\n<frame\x20name=\"hidden_frame\"\x20framebo
SF:rder=\"0\"\x20src=\"hidden\.cgi\"\x20>\n<frame\x20name=\"menu-frame\"\x
SF:20target=\"main-frame\"\x20src=\"menu\.cgi\"\x20>\n<frameset\x20rows=\"
SF:130,\*\"><frame\x20name=\"panel-frame\"\x20scrolling=\"no\"\x20src=\"pa
SF:nel\.cgi\"\x20noresize>\n<frame\x20name=\"main-frame\"\x20src=\"info\.c
SF:gi\"\x20noresize>\n<noframes>\n<body\x20style=\"display:none\">\n<p>Thi
SF:s\x20page\x20uses\x20frames,\x20but\x20the\x20browser\x20does\x20not\x2
SF:0support\x20them\.</p>\n</body>\n</noframes>\n</frameset>\n</html>\n")%
SF:r(FourOhFourRequest,1B5,"HTTP/1\.1\x20200\x20OK\r\nConnection:\x20close
SF:\r\nContent-Type:\x20text/html\r\n\r\n<html>\n\n<head>\n<title>Reset</t
SF:itle>\n<link\x20rel=\"stylesheet\"\x20type=\"text/css\"\x20href=\"/styl
SF:e\.css\">\n</head>\n\n<body>\n<center>\n\n<fieldset>\n<legend>Loader\x2
SF:0Mode</legend>\n\x20\x20<b\x20style=\"font-weight:normal;font-family:\x
SF:20Geneva,\x20Arial,\x20Helvetica,\x20sans-serif;letter-spacing:\.45pt\"
SF:>Firmware\x20upgrade\x20mode\.\x20Please\x20upload\x20your\x20image\x20
SF:by\x20TFTP\x20or\x20HTTP\x20\n\x20\x20<p>\n</fieldset>\n\n</center>\n</
SF:body>\n</html>\n\0");
MAC Address: 30:B5:C2:XX:YY:ZZ (Tp-link Technologies)
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5. As you can see, there is some pages on the switch HTTP server. If you try to connect on http://192.168.0.1 you will not see anything BUT
6. You can enter on one of those pages like that
http://192.168.0.1/menu.cgi
7. Now you are able to upload the firmware by two methods, TFTP or HTTP (easy way = http)
8. When you select HTTP Firmware Upgrade, select "browse file" and choose the correct firmware.
9. You are DONE, wait a few minutes and you can loging through Easy Smart Configuration Utility again.
NOTE: Is mandatory that SW will be on "Loader Mode" you can check for example trying to access to http://192.168.0.1/login.html and see that
Hope this help to everybody to bring back to live a TP-LINK SG108E (in my case V1) 
