Airport cycling - dead or not?

[dangerousdave]

I've got a graphite airport which after some year's use appeared to die recently - and now just cycles through red, orange and three red light. Hard restarting does no good and I can't communicate with it even after a full restart using airport admin and changing the ip address to talk directly to it.

I am guessing that this is definately a hardware problem so I'm prepared to scrap it but just had a thought:

I know that deep inside it there is a lucent silverPCM card - is that the componant most likely to have failed - if so, are they still available?

All ideas appreciated

DD

 

[whfsdude]

I don't think it is the card. It could be but I wouldn't bother to troubleshoot. Just get a used one off ebay and replace it. Sell the power supply or whatever is working

 

[Sun Baked]

Look up the websites for replacing the capacitors that go bad in the darn things.

The design is purty, but tends to make some of the innards suffer heat stroke.

 

[DHagan4755]

Call Apple. They are aware of a certain range of serial numbers of graphic base stations that have that problem. They will replace it with a new base station, because apparently it is a known flaw within Apple. I can't remember all the details, but at the time I was having a problem, like you are having know with a graphic base station, and there was a huge thread discussion at the Apple Support pages, that told me about the range of serial numbers. I can remember looking at my serial number and sure enough it was within the range. But that was years ago, literally. Give them a call though.