Airport Extreme Error message

Hi!
I recently bought a macbook and the airport extreme base station so I could have a wireless connection in my home. I have hooked it up to my PC and it has a solid green light on it, yet I can do nothing else with it. It just reads "an error occured while trying to access the base station. Make sure your network connection is valid and try again." everytime. How can I get this issue resolved? I have no ideas....

Hello, TinaKier.  
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.  
I understand that you are experiencing an error when setting up your AirPort Extreme.  Here is a troubleshooting article that I would recommend going through for this error.  
AirPort base station not seen or "An unexpected error occurred" appears in AirPort Utility 6.3
Cheers, 
Jason H.  

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