Maytag MFI2568AEW instruction

Maytag Ice2O French Door Refrigerator/Freezer Model

MFI2568AEW

HV Control Board repair instruction guide

Note: This information is copyrighted material designed for non-commercial informational use, and provided as-is with no warrantee whatsoever. Use at your own risk.

Symptoms:

•Continuously flashing, blinking front panel display lights

•Ice door flapping, clicking, opening and closing continuously

•Lack of responsiveness to any button on the door

•No ice or water dispenses

Optional Symptoms

•Lights may only flash when compressor runs

•Compressor may not run at all (fridge does not stay cold anymore)

Hello:

This guide describes my adaptation of a solution that was inspired by the Samurai Appliance Repair Man (SARM) and a posting on the related appliance repair forum thread located at http://applianceguru.com/view_topic.php?id=13035&forum_id=1&jump_to=75815 .

Since I found this info on the web for free, and you are finding this info on the web for free, if you find this helpful in saving the +/- $350 repair bill or getting the fridge fixed faster than waiting on a new board (many reports of this are back-ordered) please make the suggested donation of a “fin” to the SARM to help keep his free appliance repair forum going. Tell him “Steve sent you” ;-)

What follows are two things: the unfortunately needed legal disclaimer on the conditions of using this info, and lastly the actual description of what I did to fix my own fridge. Make no mistake, you will be fiddling with components controlling wall-outlet levels of electricity, so if you haven’t ever done something like this, find a friend who has or call in your local Maytag repair man.

In researching a fix for the fridge at 3am 7/5/07 after my fridge started the above symptoms, I located a number of sites that had reference to this problem. The SARM actually had a description of a tech going to his friend with the electronics shop and he repaired the board, it was re-installed, and seems to be working. Thus the inspiration for my attempt, which as of the writing, is about 2 days running without problem.

I consider myself handy, and an electronics hobbyist, hence why I decided to try performing the work myself. That plus I was looking at a minimum $300 repair bill to replace the HV Control Board and since it was going to be replaced anyway, I was willing to spend $5 in parts to save the $300.

So without further delay, please carefully read BOTH sections, and good luck !

- Steve

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