My freezer is working, but the fridge is not staying cold. It has been making noises like a motor trying to start and then stops, for a while. It did this about 2 years ago and someone changed the evaporator motor and it has been working until the noise started again recently. Just yesterday the food compartment stopped cooling and the back of the freezer was all ice. I opened the back of the freezer, removed a piece of foam from the drain and defrosted the frozen coils. After it was defrosted it started to cool again, but it only goes down to about 50 degrees. I tried manually defrosting it by pressing the light on and off 5 times and the heater coil was heating. Now the motor keeps turning on and off and not cooling very well. I read in one of the forums that if the defroster works that it is the control board that needs to be replaced. I wanted to know if the two problems are related and if the control board would still fix the problem. Is there a way to test the board or is there something else I need to test? Thanks for any help I can get and for this forum.

Thank you, I did order the board as well as the thermostat($10) and motor (just in case, the price is at least a third of what it was last time). I wanted a professional opinion that this board controlled all issues. I'm hoping it will solve the problems. I wasn't quite sure I understood the way the thermostat worked, if it made the defroster come on or not, but for the price I ordered it just in case. I thought I was going to have to replace the fridge, but now I'm more confident it could be fixed. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you for that explanation, it is a great description of the thermostat function. I couldn't seem to find that anywhere. I did find where someone showed a picture of the thermostat bulging and mine did not look like that.

I should be getting the control panel in tomorrow and hopefully I'll put it in without a problem and everything will be fine. Thanks again.