GT-BE98 Pro: woke up to settings gone?

[mavortium]

Running latest Merlin. Woke up to red Internet light. Some of the old network names still seem to be being offered but rebooting the router and trying to login via the web interface gives me the setup page. I'm running a JFFS on a flash drive for DNS adblocking if that matters. Any ideas? Is this the old NVRAM is full problem? Any workarounds? Someone forgot to backup the settings file...

Edit: I see a new firmware came out today so the router isn't on the latest, strictly speaking.

 

[bennor]

What firmware was the router running?
Did you have any sort of web facing access enabled like AiCloud and or Enable Web Access from WAN?

 

[mavortium]

What firmware was the router running?
Did you have any sort of web facing access enabled like AiCloud and or Enable Web Access from WAN?

It was 3006.102.5 and no external web access or aicloud.

Thanks.

 

[bennor]

It was 3006.102.5 and no external web access or aicloud.

What specific addon scripts are you running on the router?

 

[mavortium]

Actually, a couple of days ago the red Internet light was on but Internet was fine. I rebooted the router and it went away. Prelude to the current situation.

 

[mavortium]

What specific addon scripts are you running on the router?

The only one was one of the builtin adblocks on amtm (I can't remember which one it was). Could a failing flash drive have corrupted the router's NVRAM?

 

[bennor]

Could a failing flash drive have corrupted the router's NVRAM?

Likely not but, strange things can happen when one uses a USB Flash Drive and it fails while in use on the router. As a troubleshooting step, remove the Flash Drive and check it on a computer. Then run the router without a USB drive attached and see if the issue happens again.

The general recommendation by most here is not to use USB Flash Drive(s) but use SSD or similar drives designed for heavy read/write use. Flash Drives are known to fail, particularly quickly if they're cheap drives, and or due to excessive heat that is generated under sustained use by the router.

 

[Blacklistedcard]

I use the extension cable OTG for the USB thumb drive. I use to lose one drive about every 4-6 months. Now with the OTG extension cable I've had this one drive for over 1 1/2 years. Someone on the forums here mention the heat that destroys the USB drives.

Now the heat is about 90% reduced. I should track down that original message and thank that person. It was a really good idea.

 

[degrub]

Likely not but, strange things can happen when one uses a USB Flash Drive and it fails while in use on the router. As a troubleshooting step, remove the Flash Drive and check it on a computer. Then run the router without a USB drive attached and see if the issue happens again.

The general recommendation by most here is not to use USB Flash Drive(s) but use SSD or similar drives designed for heavy read/write use. Flash Drives are known to fail, particularly quickly if they're cheap drives, and or due to excessive heat that is generated under sustained use by the router.

it wouldn't hurt to reboot the router as well after removing the drive even though it should clean up.

 

[mavortium]

Yeah it's still borked without the drive attached but I will set it up again with an extension or an SSD. Flash drives have failed for me before doing this but the router never lost its settings before.

 

[Blacklistedcard]

I had my BE98Pro reboot and I had to redo the configuration twice since owning it. The BE98Pro started up like it was never configured.

Other than that, it's been the best router I have every owned.

 

[Tech9]

Any workarounds?

Seems like random issue reported in the past for multiple models ASUS routers.