Samurai Appliance Repair Man's Blog

First, do not use the model number on the manual, it's either truncated or just plain wrong and it's useless for parts and manual lookup.  Instead, come check out the videos and photos on this page.  Righteous!  

Master Reg gives a simple and sure way to tell if you have a leaky fill valve that's letting water come into the drum when the washer is off.  If you need water fill valve, you can buy it by clicking the picture below.

Un-plug Power Cord from Wall Outlet.
If water continues to enter, bad Water Valve.

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The hot and cold water inlet valves are located at the back of the washer.



Water Inlet Valve #1 in diagram

Source: Procedure for replacing fill valve on Whirlpool Duet GHW9150PW0

(Domo to kdog for the hilarious animated gif)

Common manifestation of this problem:  no lights on the control panel and when you press the power button, you just get three or four quick beeps.  

Do the test on this page.  If unplugging the blue harness from the MCU results in the control panel lighting up normally like the machine wants to run (but can't because the blue wire is unplugged from the MCU), then...

Unplugging the blue harness from the MCU resulted in the control panel lighting up normally.

You be needin' one of these:

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Source: Kenmore HE5t F71 error code and won't run

KEYSWITCH RESISTANCE CHECK TABLE

KEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .+Pos. Lead – Neg. Lead

DELAY HOURS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P1-12 . . . . P1-2
SMART WASH/ACCUSENSE/ ADAPTIVE WASH . . P1-13 . . . .  P1-2
SOAK & SCOUR/STEAM/STEAM SANI . . . . . . . . . P1-11 . . . .   P1-3
CANCEL/DRAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .  . . .P1-12  . . . .  P1-3
POTS & PANS/HEAVY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .  . . P1-13 . . . .   P1-3
HIGH TEMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. P1-11 . . . .   P1-4
START/RESUME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . .  . . P1-12 . . . .   P1-4
NORMAL WASH/NORMAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..  . . P1-13 . . . .   P1-4
SANI RINSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . P1-11 . . . .   P1-5
TURBO/PRO SCRUB/POWER SCOUR. . . . . . . . . . P1-12 . . . .   P1-5
CHINA/LIGHT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . .. . . . . P1-13 . . . .   P1-5
HEATED DRY. . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . P1-11 . . . .   P1-6
RINSE ONLY/QUICK RINSE. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . P1-12 . . . .   P1-6
GLASS XPRESS/FAST WASH/ QUICK CLEANUP . . P1-13 . . . .   P1-6

Source: Whirlpool  DU1145XTPQA Quiet Partner II Dishwasher Not starting