Connecting Airport Express to Airport Extreme

I had a linksys router with a remote wireless Airport Express and it connected and worked wonderfully. The Linsys router died so I replaced it with an Airport Extreme. Now I can't connect to the Airport Express. It does not show up in the Airport Utility and the Airport Express status light blinks amber. Any suggestions to getting my Airport Express connected and working again?

Your Airport Express was configured to work with the Linksys router and it is remembering those settings, so it's trying to connect to a network that is no longer in existence. It's "lost". That's why AirPort Utility can't find it.
You need to "hard reset" the AirPort Express by holding in the reset button until the amber light begins to blink more quickly.
Then open AirPort Utility and click Continue to reconfigure the AirPort Express with new settings that will be compatible with the AirPort Extreme.

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