well, I was  on the pi doing something when there was another power surge.
This time nothing seemed to be amiss but now I can't open the ip address of
the router. the media center won't connect to the internet (as said before)
and so I did a reset  of the router which cleared the password I saved in
it so I need to reset the password so the pi will work wirelessly.... gosh,
maybe I did that before  and that is why it won't connect. Regardless, why
can't I get into the ip address?

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