Endless blinking yellow light on my A1408 Airport Extreme...Why?

I don't know what I haven't done in my endless, futile and otherwise totally failed attempts at getting the Airport Extreme to work...the yellow light flashes. That's how far I've gotten.

Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Select the AirPort Extreme and click Manual Setup
Click directly on the word Status (2nd line on the summary page)
A window will open to explain why the AirPort Extreme is complaining, along with suggested actions to remedy the illness

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My airport express has a blinking yellow light and is not working. I have tried resetting it a few times, to no avail.
My airport utility on my desktop detects it and will attempt to connect. However, after a few moments it says "An unexpected error occurred Try again."
I'm running Mavericks on a 24-inch 2007 mac, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, OS X 10.9.3 (13D65). The Airport Express is model A1264. I connect to it via an Airport Extreme with 7.6.4.
Thanks in advance.

I have the same problem with my airport express – a blinking yellow light and it is not working. I have tried resetting it a few times.
My airport utility detects it and try to connect. However, after a few moments it says "An unexpected error occurred Try again.
Airport Express is model A1143
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A persistent, flashing amber light indicates that any of the several potential conditions may require your attention:
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(ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305101)
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Whenever major network changes are made.. eg.
My husband switched out TV cable boxes and had to unplug something.
Then you need to reset the AE back to factory and redo the setup from scratch.. it is near impossible to fix when the network has been altered apart from that.
BTW.. what exactly did hubby unplug??
How to reset.
Unplug the power to the Extreme..
Hold in reset and keep holding it on while you plug power back in.. get hubby to help. You need 3arms to do it.
Count to 10 slowly all the while waiting for the front LED to flash rapidly.. about double the speed of the normal slow flash.. release the reset.. and wait a couple of min for the Extreme to reboot.. then run through the setup again.
If your current setup has a router, then setup in bridge. I suspect this is what it is otherwise your other stuff would not work.
If you still have trouble.. what is the modem make and model??

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status is: setup over WAN!
what should the setup be and what color light should i have?

It should be turned off.. and the status light will then turn green.
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