I read your responses. You're right -- I've been doing mostly commercial installs and am not up on the HS-17. But think a bit with me:

The equipment was installed by a DirecTV installer. I did not add the bridge. Who would you suppose brought it to the condo and left it there? Nope, it wasn't me.

When I realized the bridge wasn't powered, I was blown away, but hey, everything was working. But then when I moved the Genie ( that is, I powered it down and powered it back up again), I wrote my first post here.

At that moment the HS-17 was on the second floor and about six feet above the C41W when "no server was found."

When the system gives the notice "no server was found," are you supposed to stand there waiting for it to go find one again?

The above was just the C41W operating. I Then put the rest of the system back together (connecting the C61W to power). The client and the server were about 15 feet apart on the same floor. Again, no server was found.

What is illogical about trying out the equipment that's in the house?