Airport Base Station gone berzerko? Contant Cycle When Starting up...

Ok, here's there thing, I purchased a Apple Graphite Base Station off ebay not so long ago (about 2 months). It worked fine, all i had to do was plug it in and it worked...no configuring needed. Then i unplugged the base station for some reason or another (prob a storm or something) and when i plugged it back in it just keep going 3 amber lights, 1 red light on the left side, one orange light on the left then the normal green lights for about 2 secs then it just restarted, but after leaving it for about 1/2 hr it fixed itself and went back to normal.
The problem is now that i went to go plug it back in today to use it, and now it wont start. It just keeps going from 3 amber lights, 1 red light on the left side, one orange light on the left then the normal green lights for about 2 secs then back again. I have left it on for about 2 hours and it is still doing it.
I decided to pull it apart according to http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/
Inside i found the PCMCIA and the motherboard.
After reading the article on the above website, I found that it might be a capacitator problem, so i inspected them on the motherboard, but saw that they were in proper excellent condition. So i pulled the PCMCIA card off the motherboard and booted the motherboard up, and the it started up as normal with the green lights staying the way they should be! So that must mean it cant be the capacitators right? That its probally a problem with the PCMCIA card?
BTW... i dont have a windows laptop to test that the PCMCIA card works or not anymore. I have also tried resetting the base station and reconfiguring it, but it STILL does it.
Anyone have any ideas? I hate having to use the computer in the gloomy room where the modem is .
THANX!

Andrew - do you have cable or DSL internet service. If so I suggest you dump this Graphite Base Station, then go to your local computer shop and buy yourself a brand new wireless router there. For the $30-60 that will cost you, you will get far better performance and options for much better wireless security. The Graphite Base Station is an obsolete piece of equipment that is simply not worth messing with.

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