I ordered a new motherboard from this site on Wednesday, received it the next day via fedex. I installed it and 5 hours later the freezor is still frozen and the bottom part is cold. I take this as a good sign.

Will watch it close over the next week or so to see what it does. As long as what needs to be frozen stays frozen and what needs to be cold stays cold, it's all good.

Over the last 3 weeks or sothe freezor would defrost the food do to the defrost cycle staying on. Will be watching for the cycles and see they are working.

It wasn't hard at all to replace the motherboard, no need to clip wires or anything like that on this model. The new board is designed different than the old one and the ground wire is in a different place. I had to do some surgery on the cover plate to remove part of the seal around a hole on the left side of the plate and wipe it down with alchol and wire brush to remove the sticky residue or there would not be a proper contact for the ground wire.

Other than that, it was a 15 to 20 minute job, would have been 5 if I didn't have to prepare a new hole for the ground wire. The other one the ground wire is at the top, on this new model it is on the bottom and the wire is not long enough to reach up to the top hole. Oh and there is only ONE way to install it so I couldn't turn it upside down to make it work and if I could the molex connectors wouldn't reach up that high, the wires are too short and you can't adjust them from what I can tell.

I set the freezor to 8 out of 9 and it took the temp to -6 almost -7... I adjusted the temp to 7 out of 9 and and the bottom I set to 5 and the freezor is steady at -1 to -2 and the bottom part I am still watching but it seems as of now anyway the temp for that section wont go below 36 to 37 degrees.

I was trying to get it closer to 32 but seems it wont go that low. BUT before I replaced the motherboard I could never set the bottom above 3 without the freezor defrosting everything so the new mobo is an improvement at least so far.

Only thing I noticed is the fan has not gone into HIGH mode but maybe because it doesn't need too? I opened both the freezor and fresh food doors until the motor started up and it took 15 to 20 minutes for the temp in the freezor to go back to -3 from a positive 4. I take that as good. 4 hours later the temp stabalized at -1 or at least it didn't move from that for more than an hour.

I am watching the temp in the fresh food section and it at this moment is 35.6 F. I am using a wireless outdoor thermometer from LL Bean that I put directly in the refridgerator and the reader is here on my desk so I can wirelessly keep tabs on the temp. Only have the one gadge though so I have to manually move it back and forth between the sections.

I am sure it is not 100% accurate but most gadges aren't, if this is close to what the readout says I am good with it. Currently the fresh food section temp is 35.2 and falling. Will watch it and figure the final setting will be sometime Monday so I will keep the gadge in the frozen food section until then and move it to the freezor section and see what that stabalizes at.

But like I said before I could not have these settings without freezor defrosting and now both sections are cold though I would like the fresh food a little colder but I guess as long as it is below 40F it is good.

I watched the temps all weekend and the freezor section set to 7 and the fresh food set to 5 the temps stayed within the following:

Freezor +6 to -10 when in defrost temp went up to 17 or 18 then the compressor kicked on and the fan turned on and it cooled down to between -3 and -8 then the compressor and fan turned off and kicked back on at between +3 and +5. The temps are in F not C.

It wasn't a static number that the compressor turned on and off for one time it was +2 the next +4 then turned off at -4 then over the weekend it was random between -4 and -8, depending I guess on when the last time I opened the doors and the temp of the Fresh Food section.

The FF section was pretty consistant between 34 and 38F. Though I assume the colder temps in the freezor are when it is also cooling this area. I tried different settings from the 7 and 5 but at 6 for the freezor it didn't maintain a good temperature in the FF section and from what I witnessed in the freezor section it doesn't maintain below zero longer than 20 minutes or so and I don't notice any real ice buildup on any of the food up there or the back panel. The defrost cycle happened 2 or 3 times and each time it shut off between 17 and 19 degrees and lasted probably 15 to 20 minutes.

Before when the defrost cycle did not shut off the temp must have gotten above 50 up in the freezor from the state of the defrosted food. But now with the new motherboard it shuts off before any defrosting or melting of the ice cubes. I touched the ice cubes in the tray and they were frozen dry to the touch.