Noooo! RIP AirPort Express
No! My AirPort Express has just died.
It's just given up the ghost - no warning or anything. It has never crashed, or tweaked out in any way, yet when I went to play some music through it, iTunes didn't show it up in the list, and sure enough, it's dead. The (not so) little green light isn't on, different power cords don't make any difference - can't reset it... IT'S DEAD! Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any easy way to open it either, so I can't even crack the case and see if there's anything obviously wrong with it that I could fix. =(
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Damn.... You can crack the case. Its takes a bit of sawing, a bit of cutting and possibly the loss of some knuckle skin. The unit consits of a couple of PCBs and a powersupply. Its probably the powersupply that's cooked itself. You could just find another suitable supply that gives +-3v and +-5v and hook that up (and put in a slightly bigger case perhaps. I have a broken AirportExpress in a similar situation. You can take a look a mine before you crack yours open if you like!
I'd like to bet that it's the capacitors on the powersupply that have blown. Every single parts manufacturer is having issues with blown caps. Apple, Dell, MSI, Diebold are four I've seen myself.
If you bust it open, odds are if you replace all the caps in the unit it'll probably start working again.
Handy with a soldering iron?
Cracking the case was going to be Plan B - luckily for me, Plan A came through with the goods, and I've got a working unit sitting on top of my stereo as I type this =)
Thanks for the info though, if it dies again, I don't think that Plan A will be an option the second time round...
hi kai i have the same problem. how did you solve it?
thanks
Unfortunately, I didn't fix it - I realised that I was covered by an AppleCare warranty, so got it swapped over.
If it hadn't been under warranty, I would have taken it apart and had a look inside - as e_whizz said above, it was probably something in the power supply that had cooked itself - most likely a capacitor. If there was a component on-board that was visibly damaged, I would have tried replacing it, but performing component-level diagnosis and repair on PCBs really isn't my thing.
Good luck!
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