Both my Airport Express have stopped working with OSX 10.7.5 Lion.

I'm going off my head! Both AE's 802.11n have stopped working, and no longer appear in the Airport Utility
I installed the Airport Utility 5.6 but still no luck. I reset the AE's with a 'hard reset' and also tried plugging in an Ethernet Cable, still no joy as both AE's have become 'invisible' to the config utility
Running 10.7.5 (11G63)
Anyone managed to get these re-appear?

UPDATE
By accident I have solved this. I previously had two WiFi networks running, the 'prime' one is from a Sky router and the second one from an Apple Time Capsule. To try and fix poor Sky broadband performance, I switched off the Time Machine to negate any potential issues of DNS clashes. During this 'no Time Machine' period I plugged in the old Airport Express's one by one, did a hard reset by pressing the reset button with a paperclip on the AE whilst plugged in. The Airport Express after flashing yellow quickly, then turned a steady yellow for around 2 minutes before started yellow slow flash. Only then did it appear in the Airport Utility window (I used ver 6.1 without any issue on a Mac running 10.7.5) BE PATIENT - THE AIRPORT EXPRESS TAKES A WHILE TO APPEAR AND YOU NEED TO RE-SCAN
When the yellow flash starts, re-scan for 'other Airport Base Stations' using the grey button top right of the utility window.
I configured one with an ethernet cable, and one over WiFi, both working and the whole job took maybe 10mins each
I'm using old Airport Express devices 802.11n.
Have not switched on the Time Machine yet - fingers crossed it does not all fall in a heap again !!!

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D'un instant à l'autre, et sans la moindre intervention extérieure, la borne Airport Express s'éteint pour ne plus jamais se rallumer.
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