Airport extreme goes to sleep ?!

When i stop connect to my airport extreme (this's a test, no one connect to it), it automatically goes to sleep & its light turn off. I can't connect to it anymore ....& need to un-plug the power & take it on again. It still work good. however it would go to sleep again with the same steps above. What happened to my airport, do i need to push the reset button
thanks

Hey Chau Hoang Du!
You should try resetting the Airport router. Here is an article that can help you complete this troubleshooting step:
Resetting an AirPort base station FAQ
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1365

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AC Power                   -1*
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hibernatemode      0
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womp               1
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panicrestart       15
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   CPUBoundAssertion                       0
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   ChargeInhibit                           0
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   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep              0
   ExternalMedia                           0
   DisableLowPowerBatteryWarnings          0
   EnableIdleSleep                         1
   NoRealPowerSources_debug                0
   UserIsActive                            0
   ApplePushServiceTask                    0
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* Kernel Assertion ID = 500
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Launch the "Keychain Access" application located in Applications/Utilties.
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Restart or log out then back in.
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Hi Everyone. I hope this post will be helpful because I have been very frustrated with apple and their customer support and I figured this out on my own by reading all of the discussions and playing with my settings but it took me a while...
I recently for school bought all apple products and I have non-mac products as well. I bought the airport extreme believing I could hook up all of my computers through it and share the printers and my mybook external hard drive with my husbands desktop and the other lap tops. Unfortunately this was not as easy as advertised...
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After upgrading to leopard I found that my G5 will not automatically go to sleep.
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Power-up the AirPort base station; wait at least 5-10 minutes. Note: The AirPort's status light may continue to flash amber after it has intialized. That is because, there may be some additional configuration items necessary, like setting up wireless security, before the overall setup is completed to get a green status.
Power-up your computer(s).
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Disconnect the AirPort base station from the Internet broadband modem.
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