⟐ Answered February 23, 2026 at 1:51 MST

Dan, that’s exactly what happened, I can now clearly see that both parts of the connectors pulled off of the board. The tear down instructions gave several warnings about being careful to not break the connector, and I was impressed with how easily and cleanly mine came off. Perhaps I will add a comment about what happened here. I left the reset switch connected to the board, and instead disconnect the actual switch from the case. My problem is with the LED and whatever the other is directly next to the LED. What is that one?

⟐ Answered August 31, 2025 at 16:08 MST

I haven’t worked yet with these devices so I have no idea where to start looking for solutions.

It doesn’t show up in Airport Utility on a Mac, neither on a Windows PC.

⟐ Commented April 07, 2025 at 11:52 MST

Doing some more research, I'm reading that sometimes replacement fans do have a high pitched noise. So, it might indeed be the new fan. It looks to be the same brand (Sunon) as the original, so I don't know why there would be noise. Very sad... Past my return period on this fan, too.

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When I use a pin to press it there's no give/click and it doesn't activate. Any ideas on how to fix this?

⟐ Commented November 02, 2020 at 5:34 MST

It will fit under the brace and i’m sure that’s fine (There is a small gap) but just wondering if anyone has seen this on assembly. There is no room to move the cable nearer, looking through the power supply vent holes the lead is at full extension.

Thanks for any input. This is the first of these I’ve seen before.

⟐ Answered July 22, 2020 at 3:10 MST

• After connected power ≈1sec I see green light after always "stable" yellow color and after ≈20sec fun switch to max rpm.

• If I press reset button and connect power, ≈1sec green and after blinking yellow (all time I push this button).

No device in AirPort Utility, no light on connected Ethernet cables, but USB power is ≈5V.

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Thank you.

⟐ Commented December 19, 2019 at 12:43 MST

They are all physically wired together after I ran CAT cable through the attic and down the walls. The middle unit in the chain started flashing amber the other day. I figured it was simply an update. I checked Airport utility on my Mac, nothing. So I ignored it.

Because my room is at the end of the chain, near the 3rd Airport, I started to notice pretty bad download speeds. I attempted to reset the 2nd, problematic Airport, to factory defaults. However, the reset button doesn’t seem to work at all. Though, I hear and feel a click when attempting to reset. After I was out of ideas, I returned it to its usual spot, and now the entire chain of Airports are all out of wack and won’t reorder as they usually do. I understand I can just reset all of them to defaults but I can’t reset this problematic one…

I went to best buy to get a USB3.0 to Ethernet to try and connect the Airport to my Macbook and reset it that way, but I see nothing when connected on the Wi-Fi/Network menu or in Airport utility.

When it powers on, I get: solid green, solid amber, flashing amber. And I cannot get any other light sequence.

Suggestions? Is it worth opening up and trying anything inside? I also think maybe lighting might be to blame, as this Airport is not on a surge protector and here in Orlando we’ve had a barrage of terrible thunderstorms.

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⟐ Commented October 01, 2019 at 16:11 MST

I've bought 2 broken units at eBay with different errors. In my opinion the Time Capsule-Models are made of better quality and don't have so much problems.

Unit 1: powers on, green light blinking, constant orange light. No WiFi but ventilation works!

Reset after removing power doesn't work > holding 6 seconds lead to blinking LED and after release it changes to constant orange light again

Unit 2: powers on, powers on, green light blinking, yellow blinking light. No WiFi! Ventilation doesn't work (cooler is working) and thermal-resistor is OK

Reset works but the same status comes up again.

The batteries were OK (3,09V / 3,02V) and were removed vor 5 minutes on both units. Unfortunately no success.

No connection via LAN to my router and no LEDs on my router when connected.

No water-damage or lightning-signs on the PCB...

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

Successful repairs:

Unit 3: was a Time Capsule with a non-working HDD. Here someone scratched 2 wires of the HDD-connector which I solved with a special and thin copper-wire

Unit 4: was also a Time Capsule with a broken HDD which started all over again. The change of the HDD solved the problem.

Hi Dan,

sorry I forgot to write that into the text. No, unfortunately not.

It seems (probably) that due to an over voltage the network controller / WiFi-IC is broken. My router doesn't recognize them i. e. the LED's on the LAN-sockets remain dark when I plug the Apple Airport Express.

Best regards

Ingo

⟐ Answer accepted November 30, 2018 at 5:54 MST

On the customers 2009 iMac I was able to hook up via ethernet cable, it is running El Capitan. The 2016 Touchbar only has thunder ports and running High Sierra. But the beeping on the fourth character I don’t understand. It happens when trying to enter a bracket “[“. I have no idea why this would just come up out of the blue.

UPDATE 9/19/18

I had a couple of machines come in that had been on my network before from a couple of years ago. They were not set to remember the password but had no problem connecting or entering the password.

⟐ Answer accepted October 04, 2018 at 11:36 MST