--- title: "Every code GE publishes, and what it means on your appliance." description: "49 error codes and 11 signals GE publishes for refrigerators, dishwashers, ranges, wall ovens and microwaves — what each one means, which appliance it belongs to, and what to do" url: "https://gemiami.support/error-codes/" date_modified: "2026-09-01" --- # Error codes archive ## Every code GE publishes, and what it means on your appliance. Read out of GE's own tables rather than collected from repair forums. Which matters here more than usual, because the same characters mean different things on different appliances — F3 is the oven sensor on a range and a shorted touch pad on a microwave. 49 — codes, from GE's own tables 11 — signals that are not problems 5 — appliances with published tables 4 — with no codes at all ## Every code and signal, by appliance Filter by the appliance in front of you. The same characters mean different things on different machines here. Case matters on this make: DE is demo mode and dE is the defrost system. And the appliance matters as much as the characters — F3 is the oven sensor on a range and a shorted touch pad on a microwave. ## DE and dE are one keystroke apart and opposite answers GE lists DE in capitals as demo mode — the lights and controls work and the cooling is switched off deliberately — and dE in lower case as the defrost system not having run in 24 hours. One is a setting somebody enabled by accident and costs nothing to clear. The other is a repair. Every search anybody types loses the difference, which is why they have separate pages here. ## GE says plainly that this list is not complete On their own range and oven table they write that they cannot provide every code for past and present models. So a code missing from this archive is not proof your appliance cannot raise it, and a code present is not proof yours can — the model number settles it. What we will not do is fill the gap with codes nobody published, which is how a sibling network ended up publishing symptoms as codes. ## Three things worth knowing before you look one up Photograph it first - Cutting power erases the code, and the code is most of the diagnosis. - Note whether it flashes or is steady, and whether there is a sound. - GE describes refrigerator codes as flashing green with a beep. Check which appliance - F3 is the oven sensor on a range and a touch pad on a microwave. - FF is the control on a range and a warming freezer on a refrigerator. - Advantium has its own table, separate from both. Read the case - DE and dE are different codes with different answers. - So are tC and tF, which are not errors at all. - A number followed by H on a dishwasher is delay start counting down. ## Start from what the appliance is doing Not every problem puts characters on a display, and GE does not publish a table for every appliance it makes. These pages start from the behaviour instead — what you can see, hear and smell — with the checks that cost nothing first. ## This list is what GE publishes, not everything their appliances can log Their own tables say so. If your appliance is showing something that is not here, tell us the code and the model — it is still diagnosable, and it is still worth the call. ## The questions this page is asked Will unplugging it clear the code? — Often, and GE asks for exactly that on several of them — thirty seconds at the breaker. A code that clears and stays clear was reporting a glitch. One that returns is reporting a problem, and resetting it repeatedly only delays the diagnosis. My appliance shows no code. Does that mean nothing is wrong? — No. GE publishes no codes at all for wine centers, range hoods, built-in ice makers or basic dryers — those are diagnosed by measurement. The symptom pages are where to start. The code is not on this list. — GE says their own tables are not exhaustive, so that is expected rather than strange. Send us the code and the model number and we will tell you what we can before the visit. Is a code always a repair? — No — several are the appliance reporting a state. PF is a power failure notice, Cup Open is a reminder, tC and tF are TurboCool and TurboFreeze running, and a number with an H is a delay start. Those are published here as signals rather than as errors. ## What GE repair actually involves in Miami ### Why every code here names its appliance Because on this make the same characters genuinely mean different things depending on what is showing them. A single page for ‘GE F3’ would be correct for a range owner and wrong for a microwave owner, and there is no way to write it that is right for both. ### Where the table repeats itself, we say so GE’s range list has four codes that all mean the keypanel, two that both mean the oven sensor and two that both mean the control. Twenty codes describe far fewer than twenty repairs, and a page that pretends otherwise is padding rather than information. ## Tell us the code and the model number. With those two we can usually name the likely part before the visit. The scope and the figure come in writing before anything is opened. --- **[Read full article: Error codes archive](https://gemiami.support/error-codes-archive/)**