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Flood damaged GE refrigerator freezer not cooling


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Have a GYE22HMKBES GE french door refrigerator that was in about 5 inches of water while powered. After drying out, refrig powered up but compressor just kept clicking for days ( did not own house at that point) Replaced compressor overload protector which is where water level rose to. Kept same capacitor. Compressor now comes on and stays on as refrig gets kind of cool after two hours but freezer not a blip. Compressor is very warm to hot. Entered tech mode and tested a few items but not sure what im looking for. Wondering if motherboard is at fault since it was powered when hurricane happened. Thanks for any help. Hate to toss a $2000 refrigerator. 

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Check to make sure the condenser fan motor in the back by the compressor is working - It very well could have been under water also and be frozen up.

Also check to make sure the evaporator fan is working - probably is since you say the refrigerator section is getting a little cooling.

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I ran the diagnostic tests and got a 0010, 00lo, 022d, 0303, 0304. I can only see the explanation for the first one on my mini tech sheet- FZ ice maker thermistor out of range but it has a door icemaker. I ran the fan tests and got slight fluctuating on all with the following FF fan =3500, FZ=2580, Condensor=1340, Ice box=2266, Deli=4033. Did test 95 FF cooling test and got 52 on left display and 58,74,98,90 on right display. heard only clicking but did not hear compressor come on. (It does come on under normal operations) could that be a capacitor issue? Did test 96 FZ cooling test got 69 and 14,52,33,14,91. Also heard clicking but compressor did not start. Tried water valve tests butblibe not hooked up and I heard a click/hum but cancelled test when no display was showing. Anything else to try. After running 15 minutes, compressor is running, evaporator is chilled but no evap fan is running. Freezer section no activity.

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Extra info. The overload compressor protector part did not have markings for where the orange and other wire go. I tried both ways but compressor seemed to run in either configuration. also the OCP was an aftermarket and not the GE one that came today, but both look the same. 

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