Airport Extreme just stopped working

I have a airport extreme and and Airport Express. They have both been working on the same router for about a year or two. Now all of a sudden the Airport Extreme line doesnt work. I try to reconfigure and get the following message"Airport Utlity unable to find Airport wireless device after restarting." and goes on to say You may need to select your network from the WIFI menu and try again.  Don't understand what this means? I have tried reseting the extreme hard and soft still will not find the airport connection or even the ethernet connection. Can these Extremes burn out ? Thank you for the help

It's not the power adapter. If it were, you would have no power at all going to the AirPort Extreme and you indicate that the port lights are functioning.
Power down the AirPort Extreme for 5-10 minutes and then restart the device. If you still see the same symptoms, I'm afraid that there has been an internal electrical component failure in the AirPort Extreme and it will need to be serviced or replaced.

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