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Remove the spray arms.
Soak them overnight in a tub of CLR.
With the spray arms removed,run the dishwasher so that water circulates without being restricted through spray arms.
This may dislodge some crud that can be wiped out.
Re-attach the arms and start the unit.
Once it fills and starts washing add 1 quart of white venegar to the water and let it compleete the cycle.

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Source: GE dishwasher leaving crud on dishes GLD5950N00CS

That is the general signs of a bad touchpad.  If the tech sheet has a keypad matrix then look for what two ribbons are for the "CANCEL" key.  Disconnect the touchpad ribbon cable and short the two pins that are for cancel on the board.

Generally if you can get the control to do a 2 minute drain and stop when cancel is pushed then the control board is OK.

Most Whirlpool boards will also defualt to drain if you remove power, disconnect the touchpad ribbon, and then reconnect power with the door closed.  Lets you know that the control is sensing a missing keypad = control board probably OK.

Touchpanel part link ==> http://www.repaircli...8573675/1180871

Source: Kenmore 665.13492K600 Dishwasher - Fail

Rtnoww posted a long, rambling and erroneous comment to our podcast episode, "Why do all new dishwasher suck?"  He claims that we are incorrect in saying that one of the purposes of rinse aid is to help dishwasher dry the dishes.  In this short screencast, we show Rtnoww with Whirlpool's own technical training documentation why we are correct and how he is just plain out to lunch on this issue.  Here's the link to the original podcast post page ==> http://fixitnow.com/...shwashers-suck/

Our own Chief Master Appliantologist RussTech just posted a new gallery on this  disassembly.  Check it out ==> http://appliantology...aws-dishwasher/

You can learn more about your dishwasher and order parts here ==> http://www.repaircli...her-Repair-Help