Since yesterday we noticed that our GE PDW9980N20SS’s panel lights up but nothing happens when we press the start button. The start button’s light turns on and off, but nothing happens, no noise of any kind and we confirmed that the panel is not locked.
On a hunch we open the front panel and changed the door latch switch with a good spare we had, but it looks like that did not help. We also removed the filter assembly at the base of dish washer (below the racks) and the control arm and cleaned it of all debris and dried soap.
For a while, the vent motor used to make a whining noise during the dry cycle, wondering if that finally gave up, it did look rusted.
Any help is greatly appreciated ? I don’t have a multimeter, but I can get one if needed.
CJ
So we finally gave in and called a tech, it turns out that the part with the 2 metal leads that is part of the door latch had gone bad. He replaced just that tiny part of the door latch and the dishwasher is working fine now. We paid $120 for this, $65 for the tech and the rest for part of the door latch. Not the greatest deal, but better than being stuck with no dishwasher.
Hope this helps someone,
Cheers,
CJ
I just had same problem lights up but won’t start I tried reseting by turning off power but I solved it there are two prongs sticking out right by the two wires that go off to the left for the vent.red and black the two prongs to the right of that plug will reset the board …just short out the two with a screwdriver and then wait about two minutes and then press start .just thought I’d put this so other know hope it helps cause that sux calling the million dollar appliance guy lol peace yall