Hi everyone. I have never heard of this site until I was searching today. Seems like a great resource! We have a 2006ish GE Refrigerator with the bottom freezer drawer. Model No. GDL20KCSABS

For about 3 months we experience clicking noises coming from the fridge at regular intervals. Sounded like a switch turning on and off for about 30 seconds, then the fridge would sound like it was laboring a bit, then it would go away for a while.

We never did anything about it, because everything seemed to be staying cold. Not today. The clicking has stopped, but so has the cooling in the Fridge unit. Luckily, we have a small beer fridge and managed to move everything without much of a loss.

The freezer seems to be fine. There is a humming noise coming from the fridge as if it is still doing something.

I have read on this forum that there are some problems with the GE motherboards, and that the clicking sounds is associated with that. I will be calling GE tomorrow to ask about that, but any advice I can find here would be great.

Thanks!

Thanks for the quick response, richappy!
So, I did what you recommended, and the compressor did run when I jumped between the line and com pins. It appears I have a bad motherboard.
I was searching through the site and found this post:
http://forum.appliancepartspros...rator-29.html#post779125
Both of the 470uF/25V capacitors were bulging, as you can see here.

I have a soldering iron and a little experience soldering from college, I'm willing to take on a $0.50 replacement as opposed to a $130 replacement. I will replace the capacitors with the exact same specs, unlike the OP. Do you have any advice or objections to trying this? As I see it, if the board is already broken, I can't hurt things.