Bricked 2 WGR614L(v8) routers. What is going on?

jules said:
The nvram reset is actually what triggers the problem. I've got more info now, but it's far enough off topic that I'm going to start a new thread. Thanks for your help!
-Jules

It seems so ... though I am not yet able to reproduce it at my side but I hope I can simulate this ....

I have posted my finding till now in this regard to your new thread and it seems corruption of some board specific parameters in nvram is the root cause ...

I will try to debug it at my side ... 

Hi Eugene,
Once you have the serial console working, hit Ctrl-C to get to a CFE prompt, and then type:

nvram set boardnum=0x01
nvram commit

then reboot.