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Hello,

A few days ago, the power went out while I was using the PC, and immediately I noticed the C7 was bricked. It restarts every few seconds like a typical brick. Before anyone asks, I have never even used the USB ports let alone tried to flash anything on this router. I went to work googling and literally could not find a single person who had a bricked c7 that wasn't doing any kind of custom modding. I figured i'd try the methods proposed to them anyway, in hopes this would solve my type of bricking as well. However now I'm starting to think its a permanent brick, and have resorted to this forum for last chance tries before I buy another router.

I cannot enter recovery mode. I've tried every combination of timing and duration for holding WPS/Reset while powering on, and while I can get a sort of 10 second freeze in the lights which include the WPS light, it resets as normal after that 10 seconds. It seems like it tries to enter recovery, but eventually reboots anyway. Also of note, both USB led's are always lit all the time since the brick. I'm not sure if this is relevant since I don't remember if the lights were on before the brick.

I'm out of options so if anyone has any idea or can confirm that this is in fact permanently dead, i'd appreciate it :)