Airport Express Tuck at Solid Amber

so basically my Airport isn't showing up in scan whenever I reset it. I've had it for about eight months and this has never been an issue. I've done soft, hard and factory resets, I've tried to connect to it via ethernet cable, connecting it to my router and so on. I plug it in and it goes to amber, and it stays on amber without any way to connect to it for configuration.

At a bit of a loss now as to what to do, does anyone know of a solution for this?

Apple AirPort For Windows XP Users

Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) is a service that's part of the Windows XP operating system, but one that may not be installed by default. WZC is required before you can use your wireless network adapter to configure an AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express base station.

Products Affected

AirPort

WZC should be installed as part of XP Service Pack 2. If you haven't already done so, run the Windows Update tool in Windows XP and get Service Pack 2 or later and any other appropriate updates for your system. Microsoft has posted instructions on obtaining the latest service pack.

If you are unable to update to Service Pack 2 for any reason, you may be able to get everything working by ensuring a compatible version of WZC is installed on an XP machine running Service Pack 1. There are a couple of ways to determine if the WZC service is installed, activated, and up to date. To see if the WZC service is installed and active:

1. From the Start menu, select Control Panels.
2. Double-click Administrative Tools (if you don't see Administrative Tools, you may need to click Performance and Maintenace to reveal them).
3. Select Services, and look for Wireless Zero Configuration.
4. Make sure that the service is started and that the startup type is set to automatic.
5. Navigate to C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\, and locate any of these component files:
   • wzcsapi.dll
   • wzcsvc.dll
   • wzcdlg.dll
6. Right-click any of these, and choose Properties from the menu to determine the specific version. You should be using version 5.1.2600.1276 or later.

Apple Airport Extreme, an other network solution for home, office, school and business from Apple. To power up the Airport Extreme base station just plug in your DSL or Cable modem and set it up with the easy to use Airport Utility. This supports both Mac Os and windows and add upto 50 users to surf on the web, stream video, share photos and more without wires.

Simultaneous dual-band support

Airport Extreme base station supports dual band width of 2.4GHz and 5GHz and works simultaneous with these two bandwidth. Some Wi-Fi devices use the 2.4GHz wireless band, including iPhone, iPod touch, and devices using 802.11b/g. Other devices can use either 2.4GHz or the higher-speed 5GHz band, such as the latest 802.11n-based Mac computers and Apple TV. Instead of choosing one of the bands, AirPort Extreme operates simultaneously on both bands, and your multiband devices automatically use the best available band. This means all your Wi-Fi devices get the fastest possible wireless performance and the best possible range. In addition, AirPort Extreme reduces the possibility of interference from appliances and cordless phones that use the 2.4GHz band.

Hard Drive Sharing

Turn your USB Hard Drive into a drive you can share with all the users on your network. You can password protect any files or you can just give the read only access. If you’re a MobileMe member using a Mac with Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard, you can even access the files on the drive over the Internet.⁴

Wireless Printing

Have only one printer at your home or office for several PC’s. Then no need to worry, Airport Extreme is going to help you a lot with these kind of scenario. Just plug your printer to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and the printer instantly becomes available to all the computers on your wireless or wired network.

Access Control and Security

With password protected secure utiility, you’ll ensure that only people with the correct password can join your wireless network. Set up a separate Wi-Fi network with a separate password for your visitors. Simply enable the guest networking feature, and your guests can use the Internet but can’t access other parts of your private network, such as your computers, printers and attached hard drives. Airport Extreme also features the inbuilt firewall protection, when you set up the base station, the firewall is automatically turned on and starts protecting your network and data against the hackers.

Finally by looking at all these features we can conclude, this is best suitable for office network or where ever we need network with several computers. One of the advantage of using Airport Extreme or Express is, no more wire around the office or home to get connected with all the computers.