Dammit, it looks like my router just died. I come home from the movies and the router is completely dark and no longer warm to the touch. I tried pushing the reset button, plugging it in many times, but it doesn't come on anymore. The weird thing is that it seems to have coincided with a power outage. Well, I wasn't home so I don't know when or how it died, so I don't know if it really coincided with it. I do know, though, that at some point while I was gone we also had a power outage, which lasted like 30 mins to an hour, according to my roommates. So I'm thinking maybe the power outage had something to do with it? But then again, I don't know why. I don't think it was a surge from a lightening strike. We don't get bad thunderstorms around here much (I live in Arizona). We do get winds from monsoons though, and I think the power outage was due to something getting knocked over from wind (it was indeed quite windy when I was going home). So does that make any sense to u guys that the power outage killed it? Also, is there anything I can do? Like, maybe I can open it up and fix something inside the dear, old brick of plastic?? I liked that router =\.
if it's toasted, then i think that router has served his time. that could happen, so it's reasonable for your router to die like that.
The most plausible explanation is that with the power outage, there was a large power spike which knocked out the router. Unless it was heavily protected with a surge protector then thats probably whats happened.
Yeah, as Addis said, probably got fried by a power surge. I usually keep anything of electronic value on a surge protector, because you never know. Better to not take that risk with expensive gear. It's not only lightening strikes that cause power surges too, btw.
wait a bit, it may not be a paper weight yet try replacing the power adaptor first, that may be fried but your router may be fine, check the power adaptors output with a volt meter, if nothing then power adaptor dead (obviously while its plugged in) replace with a power adaptor with the same input / output voltage and current (Watts / Amps), if volt meter shows an output then router is probably a paper weight
If its a belkin router then it could be the power adaptor. I had two belkin power supplies fail on me for no apparent reason.
[ot]My Belkin Router has started rebooting itself for no apparent reason lately. Was this a sypmtom of your dying router (s)?[/ot]
