Airport express just wont work

ok everything was just fine. fine for like a year then everything just stops. My airport express base just flashes amber over and over again. I did a soft and a hard restart and ran airport utility and nothing. Then i did a hard restart and started over from scratch still no change. I did everything the support docs say to. now the base is still blinking but the utility says its fine with a green light.
what to do? help!

I talked to apple care today and we figured it out.
we unplugged the modem and the airport base. waited about a couple of minutes, then with the ethernet cable attached, we started the modem then plugged in the base. It took a second but it started back up just fine. He said that if you start up in that order it will clean up how the modem and the base talk to each other. try it!

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