My problems started a week ago with my dishwasher. Originally, I purchased it from a Sears outlet, and it has traveled cross country (but worked fine for 10 months afterwards). Well, last week, I noticed the soap door wouldn't open during a cycle. The first time I thought I had something preventing it from opening. So, I ran it again, and it didn't open again. (That night, I also ran the Sanitize function.)

When my husband (auto mechanic and general handyman) started looking at it, he noticed that all of the buttons on the right side of the membrane stopped working. The heated dry was on, and couldn't be turned off. The Delay worked, start, and cancel all worked. So, I ran normal cycles with the dispenser open, to at least have some functionality.

He took the control board out, and one of the transistors was blown. You could see a burn mark in the plastic box that holds the board. He had some at work, soldered a new one on, and brought it home. Plugged it in, and still had no functionality of the right buttons or the dispenser door. Figured we'd buy a new control board here in the future when we had the $150 to put into it, but would run it with the door open for the meantime.

Last night, I went to run a load, and I had to hit the start button a few times for it to run.

Well, tonight I went to run it, and the start button and the delay start (was going to use that to cheat) wouldn't work at all.

The husband has just taken the board out, and the new transistor that he soldered on was blown as well. Husband says the transistor that is blowing is TR-4, which says it controls the dispenser.

What the HELL?! Please help, so frustrated! Do I need a new wax motor AND a new control board? Is there something else underlying that is causing this all to go bad? This dishwasher is only 3 years old, and has never had any issues. In fact, I am in love with it (until this week......)