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Glad to hear that gives me hope! Will post my progress..
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All is working good now. I have had no problems since replacing the board.
Hope this works to fix your fridge.
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Thanks for your help on this. I ended up ordering a new motherboard, it will be here soon.
The fridge has a brand new defrost heater & thermostat already, that did not fix the evap.coil frost problem--I too am 99% sure now that its the motherboard. After this experience I will be hard pressed to ever buy a GE appliance again.
How is yours doing? running ok now? Motherboard replacement fixed the problem?
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Right. I had a bunch of ice because I bought coolers and bags of ice to keep food from going bad.
I am quite sure your problem is eithter the defrost heater (if you are getting frost build up on back wall of freezer.) or the control board.
Good luck.
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Thanks Al great advice...now gotta figure out how to make icewater with the freezer on the fritz! LOL :D
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You can check them at the control board by unplugging and testing there.
However, I actually just cut the wires, took the thermisters off and put them in ice water. I then tested the resistance at approx. 32 degrees F. You want a resistance of around 16.7 ohms or so at 32 degrees.
Then I just spliced them back together.
Al
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Glad to hear you solved the problem with yours--and thx for the website info. I will likely have to purchase a new board also, still need to check the evaporator fan motor first. Did you check the resistance of your thermisters at the motherboard? Can you detail how you did that if so? What are the correct values if they are good? I assume you need to check for resistance and correct voltage.
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New motherboard did fix the problem.
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Agreed I am not happy with GE products at this point either. Do we really need a motherboard to run a refrigerator? The old equipment seemed pretty bulletproof IMO.
Keep me posted on whether or not your motherboard install successfully solves the problem. I'll be checking mine for the burnt resistors you noticed. Good Luck! I hope you fixed it!
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I talked with GE a couple days ago, and they did not mention a recall to me.
I did see something on that but it was from years ago and I think the time is up for it.
I just bought a house and this fridge was here. It had sat dormant for a year. It worked for a couple days and then went down hill.
I will never buy another GE appliance after what O have learned the past few days.!!!
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