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I had a archer C5 that was being hard to connect to and under the warranty the store allowed replacement. They didn't have the C5 in stock I took the C7 but wasn't long and I started having problems to log wireless. After some search I found Gargoyle and installed and its looked good, until today.
Im not sure of what was done but every attempt to log to the router as failed. Im able to connect to the internet but there's no wireless network and no way to log using wire. I have read the fail safe
''Enter Failsafe mode (hold reset button on boot for few seconds)
Assign static ip 192.168.1.2 to your pc. ...
Connect to address 192.168.1.1 from telnet (I use Putty) login/pass don't required.
Run 'mount_root' (otherwise 'firstboot' wont be available)
Run 'firstboot' to reset.
Run 'reboot -f' to reboot.
I have tried to do a reset but still not able to connect.''
But have no idea how to Assign static ip 192.168.1.2 to my pc, running windows 10 pro
If someone can help please I would appreciate.

What version of Gargoyle did you install?

Hi, thanks for trying to help, this file was the one used.
gargoyle_1.10.0-ar71xx-generic-archer-c7-v2-squashfs-factory.bin

How to Assign a Static IP Address in Windows 7, 8, 10, XP, or Vista

Then repeat the process, but this time try "firstboot -y" and see how it goes.

Additionally, at failsafe you should now use SSH, not Telnet. This changed in 1.10

Thanks to all that helped.
Some things weren't clear to me but with the help I got from here and some search, problem solve.
Now I have to find again that page in here that showed how to set everything, because somethings I dont know whta it means.
This is what I wrote after successfully getting the archer C7 back.
It does need to enter login and password.
login is root and Password is password.
the program used was Putty.
Set the pc as 192.168.1.2
to do so go to properties of Ethernet card, right clic on and choose properties, click protocole internet version 4 and them properties.
enter 192.168.1.2
255.255.255.0
them use preferred DNS 8.8.8.8
Alternate DNS 8.8.4.4
ok and exit
close windows diagnostics when done, it will give error, just close.
Reset the router them
on boot press for a couple of seconds the reset to get into FailSafe mode.
Using putty program enter 192.168.1.1
If successful it will show Login:
enter ''root''
it will them show Password:
enter ''password''
Run 'mount_root' (otherwise 'firstboot' wont be available)
Run 'firstboot' to reset.
Run 'reboot -f' to reboot.
them repeat process but replace the -f by -y

Leaving this here if ok with the Moderators for some other newbie

Glad you worked it out by yourself.

poveiro wrote: Run 'mount_root' (otherwise 'firstboot' wont be available)
Run 'firstboot' to reset.
Run 'reboot -f' to reboot.
them repeat process but replace the -f by -y

I was actually referring to the "firstboot" command, not "reboot", so you end up with this: Also, there's no need to set alternate DNS Servers when doing this procedure, just leave as it is.

thanks.