Some how I busted my antrouter R1 LTC and not sure what to do with it

This all started 3 months ago when I received the antrouter and thought that it could replace my regular apt router. I ended up changing the ssid to something different , connected my PC and laptop to the wifi, everything seemed smooth until I power cycled the antrouter one day. Now the damn thing won't appear when I try and discover it by wifi . Tried to hard reset the antrouter, connect it by ethernet to PC and nothing at all, IP address doesn't lead anywhere but a dead end and nothing discoverable in the network setting. Beside a few blinking light every couple of minutes or so the antrouter seems dead. I contacted bitmain and they sent another antrouter no questions asked but it's a regular antrouter R1 and not the LTC version (lol).
I am content with the replacement but it would be nice to for the R1 LTC to still function or have a purpose. Do you guys any suggestions for trouble shooting? Should I sell the antrouter for parts or salvage the chip, I'm sure the mining chip is fine.