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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