My Fridge is warm. My Freezer top section is warm - only the bottom of the freezer is cold - cold enough to freeze bowl of water overnight - while in the fridge the food melting melts away my money as well.

We took off the panel inside freezer and the coils are clean and only have what looks to be normal build up - open the door and the ice quickly melts away - plus it back in and the compressor fires up and the coils start to become frosty in 10 minutes or so.

Underneath - there was a TON of lint and crap on all the coils.

The fan to the compressor in the back panel is working fine.

The fan inside the freezer will not turn on - I say that - but I don't know how to force it to try to turn on...
When should it be spinning?
How often does it cycle?

I used the command to force defrost mode - turn the dial in the fridge dial panel for the freezer on then off 3 times within 6 seconds - that turned the compressor off but I can't see anything going on with the heating element.

So - my question -
is this a fan issue
is this a coil issue
is this something else?

I have no idea but seem to think that fan is not being told to run....

Any help for a guy looking to save his ice cream ?

Thank you.

FridgeMark

richappy Okay thanks - the coils are freezing from top to bottom - and pretty fast - top freezes first and the lower ones last - is that how they should be?
What about the fan not ever running?

Thanks!
Fridgemark