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E*M*H  
#1 Posted : Saturday, August 1, 2015 11:16:58 AM(UTC)
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The touch panel display on my oven (about 2 years old) has stopped working. The touch panel itself *does* work. The buttons beep, it turns on the oven, activates the light inside the oven, but the clock area that also shows oven temp, timer, on/off status is blank.

I just had some electrical work done in the house (unrelated to the oven specifically), and breakers were turned off/on repeatedly as part of the job. I am assuming something they did affected the panel. The electrician is skeptical, but has agreed to come back and take a look. I don't expect him to be much help.

If the buttons work, but the display is dead, what is the best course of action?

Thanks for your help!
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denman  
#2 Posted : Sunday, August 2, 2015 3:52:47 AM(UTC)
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Sounds like the control board (item 15 in section 01) is shot.

This would not be the fault of your electrician.
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#3 Posted : Sunday, August 2, 2015 7:23:49 AM(UTC)
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Thanks for the reply and the links - after further research, I was coming to the same conclusion.

So do you think that the fact that the control board went dead the same day the electrician was cutting/restoring power throughout the house is completely unrelated (a coincidence) or you think it probably is related, but it's still not his fault? We've had plenty of weather-related power outages where the electricity goes out/comes back on randomly, with no adverse affects to the oven.

I'm just trying to get a handle on the cause, so I can prevent it from happening again, if possible.
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#4 Posted : Sunday, August 2, 2015 7:50:26 AM(UTC)
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It could just be a coincidence or related to shutting the power off/on.

Boards do not like power cuts but it may not cause a problem for 100 times and then on the 101st time it blows the board.

Also I do not know what work they were doing.
It could be they caused a power spike on the line but I would have thought that this would have also blown other appliances / electronics.
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#5 Posted : Sunday, August 2, 2015 9:38:44 AM(UTC)
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Well, nothing else blown, but my modem was reset to factory default settings as if it just came out of the box - SSID name, security settings - all wiped.

A power spike seems likely to me, and I will see what the electrician thinks when he returns.
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