TomatoUSB

Hello all…new to this site. I have an Asus RT-N16 running 1.28. It has worked flawlessly for months. A couple days ago the internet went down. Now I cannot make any changes to the router pages, reboot, or power the router down without having to manually restart the wireless using the red WPS button. Every time I save changes, or modify access restrictions and save, the router page will not refresh, and the wireless goes down, and the wireless light goes out on the router. I have tried unplugging the router for mins, rebooting etc.
Anyone famaliar with this? Do I need a reflash? I had a friend load tomato on, as I got it as a gift. I am not too experienced with flashing tomato on this router. or is possible it is a hardware issue with the router??
My friend told me that restoring the router will trash tomato, is this correct?
I am confident I can research and learn if I need to reflash tomato on, but I just want to check, and get an idea of what I need to do or consider?

Appreciate any help! Thanks
Eric

This router was the recent flagship of Asus and will be the WRT54g for modders for many years to come. Keep it! Just do a factory reset one time and reconfigure. Do not restore backup settings again. You didnt mention which tomato mod are you running and what build?

If that doesnt help then a reflash wont hurt. But i am confident that a NVRAM erase will fix it :-)

Have a great day.