Woke up yesterday morning and found items in Freezer side defrosted. It was cool but not cold enough to freeze items. Unplugged and cleaned dust and dirt in rear/squirrel cage and restarted, and ice cubes started forming and iced-up so freezer section was working fine. But came back in the evening same issue ice started melting, freezer section not cold enough. Unplugged it this morning for 1/2 hr and restarted, the ice cubes forming again and freezer appears to be working fine, will need to see how long it lasts. All the while Refrigerator side seems to cooling fine. Also fan ( in Freezer side) seems to running continuously.

Not sure if its a defrost problem or some thermostat or temp sensor is not working.

Diagnosis attempted: Reduced temperature setting from 7 to 1-2 but fan keeps running, fan does shut off when set to zero.



Please help!

I don't see any frost on the back wall. Fan on Freezer side still running.

I removed the back wall, there is no frost. It has gone the stage where it cools ok for couple hours after restart, but stops cooling and fan keeps running. So it appears the defrost is working. Could it be an issues where it shut off and compressor is getting overheated but does not get reset for some reason and restart.

The fan near compressor area is working. I don't hear the compressor it has not come on yet, its been about 10 mins after I reconnected now, after checking rear panel for defrost.

Sorry I couldn't update sooner. The compressor is running, probably started-up after 20 mins once I plugged the unit back-on, but initially when plugged it back on only fan was running. The freezer side is now cold and seems to be working normally. My guess is, as before, it will work for a few hours but then cooling will reduce, and compressor does not get turned on to maintain temp in freezer side. Maybe compressor is getting overheated and shut-offs - is there a way to check for that?