3 outlets in a row not working

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There’s a GFCI attached to one that doesn’t trip or really reset when I click it.

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Sounds like it’s bad. It should reset.

Thank you. I will start there

Man I feel like a dumbass.

I switched out the GFCI and now not only do the original 3 outlets not work but the 2 on the adjacent wall don’t work. Now there are 2 of the GFCI outlets that don’t respond at all when you push the buttons.

Time to bring in a professional?

Check your breakers to make sure you didn't trip them when you did the replacement. Sometimes they are just barely moved when they trip.

Agree this should be the issue in a sane universe, but he did just buy the house so I would also recommend the following:
Trip all breakers on and off. Some aren’t obvious when tripped.
Test every outlet in house with nightlight or something. There’s a chance the branch is double GFI’d from another room. Encountered that more than once and I’m an engineer, not an electrician so it must be common.
Verify no light switches involved.
The reset button should turn the circuit on but will do nothing if there is no power.
Finally replace GFI but please don’t do this without a working and tested meter or shutting off the main. You’ll probably want a meter anyway to know which leads are breaker and branch side unless you just copy old config that may or may not be proper.
Also black/red is hot and bare or green is ground. White should be neutral but may be a hot from a light switch. In that case it should have some black or red tape but don’t count on it. Should be a quick and easy job for qualified electrician.

No don’t call a professional. This is a great thing to figure out yourself. Don’t burn your house down if you don’t feel safe at all by any means, simply turn the breaker off and swap the wires around until you figure it out.

One of the brands of GFCI’s are wired different than the others, the load and line are switched. I’d bet this is what the OP did is bought a different brand and the wires need swapped.

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Take some pictures of the wiring prior to replacing for reference.

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So important for us non electricity understanding people.

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Even doing simple things like ceiling fans, etc. ALWAYS take a bunch of photos of how it was setup originally.

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changed an AC capacitor this morning took two pics. First showed two brown wires. Thank God the second showed a little white on one of em for the brown and white wire.

I know it is laughable to real do it yourselfers, but that almost stopped me dead!

Sounds like a ground jumped in an outlet .....

My stepson was playing and caused a ground to jump.

My wife waited until I returned from a trip to Seattle. I returned home to find extension cords running everywhere to one half of the house. I called the electrician and we started hunting.We found the problem in an outlet.The ground had jumped the connection .........He had shorted the outlet .......replaced the outlet, three hours of search and rescue ......banned the little bugger to his side of the house ......

Thanks for all that posted replies

We brought in an electrician and he diagnosed that 1 GFCI was bad and another had a wiring problem in the breaker panel.

Took him about 1.5 hrs and we are back at 100%

He did say I had installed the GFCI that I had attempted to change correctly so I got a little relief in my manhood.