Cant find base station after restarting... now what?

i just got the airport express today and and i have been trying to set it up for the past like 6 hours... at first nothing woudl work and i coudlnt get it to even start working however finally i was abl to get it to do the installation and get everything done however at the end when its ready updating everything a message pops up says " Airport Utility unable to find your base station after restarting.... blah blah blah" HOW DO I FIX THIS... please help .. thank you :]

The first basic troubleshooting procedure is to power cycle the entire network. If you have not already done this, now would be a good time.
Power off every device on the network in any order you want
Wait a few minutes
Start the 2Wire gateway first, and let it run for a full minute by itself
Start the AirPort Extreme next the same way
Keep starting devices one at a time a minute apart until everything is powered back up
Check the network
If you have already tried this a few times, please post back to let us know what other troubleshooting steps that you have performed, so we don't waste your time by asking you to do things that you have already done.

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I updated to 7.3.1, and just wasted 3 hours getting my Airport Express working again. What a nightmare.
Flashing amber light after update to 7.3.1 and not found by Airport Utility. Hard reset allows Airport Utility to find it, but after configuration never found again and get flashing amber light, until hard reset again...
Here are the steps that worked for me to get back to 7.3. and functional Airport Express.
1) I had ethernet connected, I was unclear whether ethernet doing anything but desperate. Performing reset from MacBook with airport on.
2) Hard reset on Airport Express so that Airport Utility can find it. (i.e. press reset button for 5-10 seconds until light flashes amber 4 times. The factory reset did not seem to work.)
3) Cross fingers that Airport Express shows up in Airport Utility. (Did most times for me, but not always.)
4) Hold down Option key and select Check for Updates from Airport Utility application menu. This allows selecting old updates.
5) Download 7.3.
6) Click Manual Setup (for the Airport Express)
7) Select Upload Firmware from the Base Station menu
8) Select 7.3, apply, cross fingers
After applying 7.3 may need to do one more hard reset, I am not sure if it showed up again on its own. However, once available in Airport Utility and once again with the 7.3 firmware, was able to configure and get working again as normal.
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The first basic troubleshooting procedure is to power cycle the entire network. If you have not already done this, now would be a good time.
Power off every device on the network in any order you want
Wait a few minutes
Start the 2Wire gateway first, and let it run for a full minute by itself
Start the AirPort Extreme next the same way
Keep starting devices one at a time a minute apart until everything is powered back up
Check the network
If you have already tried this a few times, please post back to let us know what other troubleshooting steps that you have performed, so we don't waste your time by asking you to do things that you have already done.

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Today I found that my iMac (20" Core 2 Duo with built in Airport card) was not talking to my Airport Extreme 802.11n base station.
The base station had a green light and was talking OK with another machine upstairs so there was nothing wrong with the internet connection (or the cable broadband router) or the base station.
I re-booted the iMac but still no connection. I scanned for base stations from the Airport utility. Nothing found.
So I did the factory reset on the base station and scanned again and this time it 'found' it. Set up the network (passwords etc) from scratch and everthing working OK.
Except now it would not talk to the PC upstairs. Checked on the Airport utility to see what channel was in use and found it had defaulted to 13. No problem. I changed it to 6 (our normal channel) and waited for the base station to reboot. Base station re-booted fine (green light) and PC upstairs connected. Good.
BUT. Now could not find base station from iMac again!
So I went through the whole process again, once to make sure the fault was repeatable and once again to set a new channel to 10.
Now everything works great again. Everything talking to everything else (including iMac and upstairs PC) but using channel 10 now instead of the old channel 6.
I dont know why this fault should suddenly happen. Why a channel that has had no problems since install (months ago) should suddenly not work.
The only thing different was the big Software Security download from Apple yesterday morning. But the network was OK for hours after that and there was no Airport software upgrades today (that I know of) and the base station is still on version 7.1.1.
(One other strange thing I noticed. When running iStumbler after all this, I could see my network and the usual three other nearby networks near my home BUT they were all also now on channel 10 or 11 whereas they had all been on channel 6 previously just like mine had been. Weird.)
I am in the UK in case things are different where you are.
I would be interested to know if this has happened to you at some time especially in the last day or two.
Thanks

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start from scratch.
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I am having trouble configuring my Snow base station after a hard reset.
Airport Admin Utility will not see or connect to it.
I get the error:
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read the configuration file of the selected
base station.
An error occurred while reading the configuration."
any suggestions?
I need to completely erase it and give it a different configuration altogether.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I can only offer sympathies. I have exactly the same problem.
A question:
1) After a hard reset of the ABS according to the procedures in Articles 106602 & 106685, at step 14 does Airport Admin(AA) find your ABS?
(I can reliably get to this point, however loading default software fails. I noticed that the Airport ID is zeroed! )
2) In AA have you tried connecting to 10.0.1.1 using your ABS password?
3) Can you create a c2c network? (I can connect my iMacs together reliably, so it is not a radio noise issue.)
I firmly believe this is a s/w issues somehow related to the recent upgrades. I only recenly bought my ABS, after replacing my Graphite for similar reasons. This is becoming unreasonablely time consuming and expensive.
I know this is a bit 'blah, blah', but I'm scratchng around too and would appreciate help! (I had to drill a hole in the wall to get 'hardwired' to the net, so I could get on here, this is not good!)
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