Not Showing Connection to Airport Extreme

We have been using the AirPort Express for a few months now, and everything has been going extremely smoothly, every once in awhile it would seem to be getting very slow, but other than that, me and my family of four could easily use it with no issues what so ever. But, about two days ago, it stopped working all together. On a mac lap top when you would try to connect to the wifi, there would be a exlimation mark over the full bars of wifi. Therefor, I called my internet provided, and was on the phone with them for about three hours yesturday, and at the end of it, we got a new modem to see if that would work.
They gave me a ARRIS, and hooked it up to the AirPort Express. Comcast tooled me to wait about thirtee minutes for it to start working. And, nothing happened. I was on the phone with Comcast again today, and it seemed like we litterly got no where. But, I have identified that it is the AirPort that is the issue. I am currently using my laptop pluged in using an ethernet cable to the modem, and it works fine. But now, it doesn't show that the AirPort is even up, therefor I can not connect to the settings, like I could have before. The light is currently blinking on the AirPort Express, and that is about it. The only things I have tried are hitting the reset, than doing a facotry reset, none which have worked.
If anyone knows why this is happening, it would be greatly apricated,
Connor

Ok,
I have done this, and nothing worked. Therefor I went to the Apple Genius bar to see if they could to a quick fix for me. They did something to it, renamed it test, and thats as far as I got with them over there. But, when I plug it in now, I can see the network. I was apple to get into it, but there is still no internet, and a exlimation mark over where it would show your connnection.
On the app, it is currently giving me two error messages. The first being Internet Connection, " Your AirPort base station does not have a valid IP address. Make sure your AirPort base station is connected to your broadband modem or local network, verify your settings, and try again. If you still can't connect, contact your Internet sercer provider". And the second being No DNS Servers, "This AirPort base station doesn't have any DNS server addresses and might have trouble connecting to the internet."
Thanks you for the responce again,
Connor

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