Airport Time Capsule keeps turning off light

My Airport time capsule 2gig (2013) model keeps turning off like every 30 mins. I need to unplug and plug it over again to turn on the time capsule.
I connect my airport time capsule to my macbook pro 15inch retina display using the thunderbolt. I'm using osX maverick 10.9.1
while watching youtube I notice that the video stop. then I notice that my airport time capsule has no green light and need to turn it on again to get that green light.
What should I do? Please help!
FYI - I always check my airport utility and there is no updates pending or error warning sign.

The TC is faulty.. return ASAP for replacement.

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    Connection accepted from [fe80::21f:5bff:feec:6fdc%bridge0]:49358.
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    Connection accepted from [fe80::21f:5bff:feec:6fdc%bridge0]:49359.
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    Connection accepted from [fe80::21f:5bff:feec:6fdc%bridge0]:49360.
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  • The light on my time capsule keeps blinking yellow. ! mark in toolbar time capsule and it says it was unable to finish backup because back up disk couldn't be found but it also says last back up was successful.

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    Unmount the TC disk and manually mount it in Finder..
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