Airport Express status light is flashing yellow

My Airport Express status light is flashing yellow. It has worked in the past, but not recently. I thought it might be a location problem so I moved it to within 6 ft of the computer and it is still happening. I tried the reset button and that didn't do anything. Any other ideas?

"I tired the reset button"
Have you done a factory reset?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108044

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Airport Express amber light is flashing, but I'm connected. How come?

Oddities abound in computerland, but this one takes the cake: I bought an Airport Express base station last week at the Danbury CT Apple Store, then spent hours, days, trying to set up a wireless base and establish a connection with my MacMini and my new AsusEee PC. I read and reread the Setup Guide; consulted every forum and every applicable website, all to no avail. I unplugged and replugged the cable modem, reset the A.E. to the factory settings, downloaded the latest version of Airport Utility, but the amber light flashed on and on.
Then, about fifteen minutes ago, after accessing various settings that had produced nada results on previous occasions, a window appeared on my monitor telling me I was successfully connected, and by gum, I am! But I have no idea why--by that time I was too confused to be able to retrace my path.
Then, with fingers crossed, I set up the little AsusEee PC for wireless connectivity, and that too connected successfully. BUT the Airport Express light, which has never turned green, continues to flash amber!
How can this be? I'm pleased as proverbial punch, but I don't dare touch anything for fear of turning gold to dust. Does anyone have any insightful comments?

When at first you don't succeed.....
Well, since my last post--4/18--I spent many more hours and resets trying to get the fool thing working, and yesterday when I was just about ready to pack the AX up and take back to the Apple Store, I connected. How and why I do not know. Maybe it was all the resets; maybe it was kismet. Anyway, the green light is on and steady; I was also able to connect my AsusEee, and for the time at least I'm a happy keyboard tapper.
Hang in there, guys!

AP Express status light flashing amber for no apparent reason, network works fine

AP Express status light flashing amber for no apparent reason, network works fine, any ideas?

It flashes amber when there is some kind of conflict. If the internet is working but the amber light bothers you, airport utility ahould tell you why your airport is reporting a problem.
If airport utility thinks your airport is normal and the amber light bothers you, do a hard reset on the device

Three status lights keep flashing on the base station

I was using my Airport extreme, it was a-ok, then the power went. When the base station came back up all three status lights starting flashing rapidly and simultaneously and since then i cannot get any signal from the base station. I've tried to unplug for 5, 10, 60 mins then re-plug....it still goes back to the same situation. I had this problem before when i just got this replacement base station and usually after unplugging the power chord and waiting for say 1 minute, then plugging it back in, the flashing stopped and the base station started sending a signal again. Except this time all three signal lights continued to blink after re-plugging. Can anybody help at all..I could use some suggestions..I have already tried using the re-set button, it doesn't work. Airport admin utility cannot pick up the base station because there is no signal coming from it..I've checked the manual and it says that the base station has failed its power on self test...what can i do now...I had asked this question b4 when it was initially giving trouble (and i didn't have a manual handy) and was told that it should b ok..that was when i had the chance to return it to an apple-authorized service provider....now i don't so i would like to know what to do....this is a replacement base station!

Kurt,
You posted in the AirPort Express forum. You would probably get better help/suggestions from the AirPort Extreme forum.

Three status lights keep flashing

I was using my Airport extreme, it was a-ok, then the power went. When the base station came back up all three status lights starting flashing rapidly and simultaneously and since then i cannot get any signal from the base station. I've tried to unplug for 5, 10, 60 mins then re-plug....it still goes back to the same situation. I had this problem before when i just got this replacement base station and usually after unplugging the power chord and waiting for say 1 minute, then plugging it back in, the flashing stopped and the base station started sending a signal again. Except this time all three signal lights continued to blink after re-plugging. Can anybody help at all..I could use some suggestions..I have already tried using the re-set button, it doesn't work. Airport admin utility cannot pick up the base station because there is no signal coming from it..I've checked the manual and it says that the base station has failed its power on self test...what can i do now...I had asked this question b4 when it was initially giving trouble (and i didn't have a manual handy) and was told that it should b ok..that was when i had the chance to return it to an apple-authorized service provider....now i don't so i would like to know what to do....this is a replacement base station!
Power Book G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

All three status LEDs flashing means the device has failed its power on self test:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107457
...and you need to get the base station serviced.
Hard to know exactly what happened to your Base Station "when the power went" as you described it. Sometimes the line power spikes that occur immediately before or during a power failure can damage electronic devices.

I need to connect an Airport Express to an exisitng Wi-Fi Netgear Router. 1) My PC do not detect the Airport Express, 2) AE is flashing amber all the time... Please if someone can help?

I need to connect an Airport Express to an exisitng Wi-Fi Netgear Router. 1) My PC do not detect the Airport Express, 2) AE is flashing amber all the time... Please if someone can help?

Before I bought it I did the same question at the Apple Store, and they told me "You can extend your existing Wi-Fi Signal with Airport Express wireless...
You cannot extend wireless from any brand except another apple router.. the store might have assumed you were using an apple main router. Most people who buy express buy them to extend an extreme or time capsule.
You are correct .. in the setup documents it does say 5.6.1 is adequate to do the setup.. my bad.. !!

Airport Express Green Light - Can't Get To Internet

Hello.
I'm staying at a friends cottage. Their internet works fine (I can connect via ethernet to the internet). I can get the wireless network to work fine using Airport Express (green light on AX, shows network signal in menu bar).
When I try and connect to the internet via AX it fails.
I am using WPA2 Personal for the password.
Am I missing something simple?
Thanks in advance.
Hello... I tried to find this before I asked, but I couldn't narrow the search enough to find an answer... I'm sorry if this has been asked a lot before.

Michael Tutton1 wrote:
I am connected directly from the back of the modem to the ethernet on the AX.
So you're replacing the friends' equipment (if any) with your AX? Some questions:
1) Did you remove power from the modem for several minutes before you connected your AX? Some modems will refuse to connect to a "new" device until they're reset by that process.
2) How is your AX configured? Settings in AirPort Utility of particular interest are AirPort panel, Wireless tab, Wireless Mode and Internet panel, Internet Connection tab, Connection Sharing.

Airport express joins wireless (green flash on) but airplay doesn't work? Why oh Why?

Airport express joins wireless (green flash on) but airplay doesn't work? I have turn off the firewall on the router, but still I cannot connct wireless to the airport express.

Please check out the following Apple Support article to see what the minimum requirements are for AirPlay to work.
Also the following Apple Support article talks about the specifics on how to use an AirPort Express Base Station for AirPlay.

My Time Capsule doesn't want to (hard nor soft) reset, and the status light keeps flashing quickly.

About two weeks ago, my Time Capsule's status light was flashing rapidly orange/green simultaneously.
Unplugging the power supply worked.
However, now this trick doesn't work anymore, and a soft nor hard reset of the Time Capsule doesn't work either.
The Time Capsule can't reset anymore, doesn't send out WiFi-signals, and its status light keeps flashing rapidly green/orange simultaneously.
Thanks for your support.
Zander.

What model is the TC? Please give the number from the base, A1xxx.
It sounds like the reset has been forced in and is not releasing. I think whatever the problem is you will have a hard time fixing it.. it will need replacement .. it is just a question of what is possible and that depends on its age and model.

Airport express not working. Solid Yellow, green flash, back to solid Yellow

I have an airport express that is not working anymore.
I have done a factory reset, when plugged in using an ethernet cable direct to my mac, it goes a solid yellow, flashes green for a second, then back to solid yellow.
If I watch the network preferences attached to this it says that Cable Unplugged.
When the green light flashes on the express, the ethernet connection in preferences it switches to no IP address for a split second and then not connected.
This is with Using DHCP
if I try using DHCP and give it a clean IP address, it goes green-connected for that second before back to not connected.
it doesn't appear in Airport utility 5.6 or 6.0
Any suggestions on what I can do?
or is it toast?
thanks
Rob

Hi
I have had problems over the years with my Airport Express (which i think i purchased aound 2005). Occasionally it goes wrong for no apperent reason (only use it for music on my wirless netwoork which the main component is my Airport Extreme for internet).
The final fix that always seems to work is to re-coonect to the computer via Ethernet cable and re-set.
Once green again, then put back into its original postion in its wirless state.
If this does not work, maybe its the end..Some last for years, some don't, bit like hard drives.
True sustaibilty is about manufactered good lasting for years, not replacing them when there is no need due to malfuction.
G

More Airport Express Problems - its those flashing lights

I bought mine earlier in the year & eventually got it to work with my itunes. I had a problem today and ending up loading the latest firmware and then resetting. Now I'm back to square one. Flashing yellow lights - hard resets - error messages. Having gone through the set up I get the error message
"Airport utility was unable to find your apple device after restarting. The settings for this apple wireless device have been successfully updated, but there was a problem re-joining to wireless network or finding the apple wireless device. You may need to select your network in Manage Network Connections and try again"
I'm no PC wizz and I can't recall now how I fixed it the first time - probably more luck than judgement but I'm mega frustrated today. Anyone know their way round this? Many thanks

I bought mine earlier in the year & eventually got it to work with my itunes. I had a problem today and ending up loading the latest firmware and then resetting. Now I'm back to square one. Flashing yellow lights - hard resets - error messages. Having gone through the set up I get the error message
"Airport utility was unable to find your apple device after restarting. The settings for this apple wireless device have been successfully updated, but there was a problem re-joining to wireless network or finding the apple wireless device. You may need to select your network in Manage Network Connections and try again"
I'm no PC wizz and I can't recall now how I fixed it the first time - probably more luck than judgement but I'm mega frustrated today. Anyone know their way round this? Many thanks

Airport Express will not stop flashing amber light; Reset multiple times; Works for a second with green light and then resumes flashing amber

I bought an Airport Express to extend my Airport Extreme about a month ago. It worked great until 2 weeks ago it started flashing amber. I reset it and set it up via airport utility and it would work for a little while, with great connection, and then it resumes the flashing amber light. Here is the error message:
"This AirPort base station was unable to extend the wireless network. Make sure the wireless network you're trying to extend was set up and is working correctly, that you entered a matching wireless network password into this device, and that this device is in range of the wireless network."
The Airport Extreme is in working condition, in range, and entered in correctly. I do not understand how it can work great for a second and then stop.
Thanks!

Power off both the AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express
Wait a few minutes
Power up the AirPort Extreme, and let it run a few minutes
Then, power up the AirPort Express
If you continue to have difficulty, ask Apple to replace the AirPort Express.

Connecting an USB drive is causing the status light to turn yellow on 2013 Airport Extreme

I recently purchased a new Airport Extreme ac to improve wifi performance in my house. It has been working fine. Today I decided that I would try to connect one of my USB backup drives to the Airport Extreme. As soon as it is connected, the status light goes yellow. It appears to be trying to read the drive, which has only a timemachine backup folder on it. But the status light never comes back to green.
Here is the System Information for the USB:
INIC-1610P      :
Capacity:          500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk1
Product ID:          0x1e40
Vendor ID:          0x13fd (Initio Corporation)
Version:           1.07
Serial Number:          0010101E40000000
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Initio
Location ID:          0xfd130000 / 5
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          2
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
Volumes:
disk1s1:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name:          disk1s1
Content:          EFI
MyBook:
Capacity:          499.76 GB (499,763,888,128 bytes)
Available:          162.73 GB (162,727,297,024 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk1s2
Mount Point:          /Volumes/MyBook
Content:          Apple_HFS

Well, I unplugged the drive from my laptop and plugged it in to the airport extreme again and this time it stayed green and I now see the drive in the airport utility under partitions. Very odd. Going to try restarting the airport to see if it will go green.

I bought an Apple Airport and the light is flashing a yellow light! I did this because I live in a basement and the modem is in the first floor. I followed the instruction manual and the Airport is not working still. how can I make my Airport work?

How can I make the Airport work?

If there is a modem and not a router on the first floor, then the only possible way to get it to work would be an Ethernet cable connection between the modem and the AirPort Express device.
I think you need to describe your situation in more detail.

The Time Capsule light continues flashing yellow.

The machine seems to be working fine with the wifi and backup systems. I reset the wifi and the light stopped flashing and was green for a couple of hours, but then started again. Tried a second time with the same outcome. Any ideas?

If you have not already done so, you will need to download and install the full featured version of AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion
Then open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility 5.6
Click Manual Setup
Click directly on the word Status (2nd line) and a window will open to explain why the Time Capsule is complaining....along with suggestions to remedy the issue. It might be something as simple as a message that an update is available for the Time Capsule.
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Airport Express status light is flashing yellow

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