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GE Profile - fridge not cooling

I have a GE profile fridge with Brita filter and bottom freezer. Freezer is working fine but the fridge doesn't cool. It "sometimes" will work for a few days only if I unplug the fridge and restart it. The light is working inside the fridge. It's only about 4 years old. A repairman I spoke to says it might need to replace the motherboard and it would cost with labour $400.

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  • diana_pitt Aug 17, 2009

    Thanks for your response. The freezer is not frosting up at all.

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If freezer is icing up, you might have a defrost problem. Frost free models have a heating element that is controlled by a timer to automatically defrost ice, defrost timer turns on defrost heating element every 12 hours to melt ice in freezer and allow good air flow.
You can test defrost element with an ohm meter(located inside freezer coils-will have two wires going to a plug connection), if OK replace defrost timer (located in various places depending on make and model

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