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title: "GE microwave error code Probe"
description: "GE microwave error code Probe: Open temperature probe, or the probe is not plugged in during a temperature-cook function."
url: "https://gemiami.support/error-codes/microwave-probe/"
date_modified: "2026-08-31"
Appliance type: "Microwaves"
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# GE microwave error code Probe

### What Probe means, in the maker’s own words

Open temperature probe, or the probe is not plugged in during a temperature-cook function. GE’s own instruction is to make sure the probe is firmly inserted into both the wall of the microwave and the food.

### Where this code actually appears

On the control panel, and usually with a sound. GE describes their refrigerator codes as flashing green on the display and typically accompanied by a beeping, and the range, microwave and dishwasher tables all describe codes you can read from the front of the appliance. That is the opposite of some makes, where the number is written into a hidden log and never shown — here, if something is wrong, the appliance generally tells you. Photograph what it says before cutting the power, because a reset erases it and the code is most of the diagnosis.

### What to do about it

- Push the probe fully into its socket and into the food. GE names both, and the food half is the one people miss.
- Try a different cooking mode to confirm the appliance is otherwise fine.
- If the probe is properly seated and the message stays, the probe or its receptacle is the repair.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [microwave repair](/services/microwave-repair/), and every one of those pages carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 306-2503](tel:+13053062503) and describe what the display is doing before booking anything.

What this one means

What Probe means, in the maker’s own words

Open temperature probe, or the probe is not plugged in during a temperature-cook function. GE’s own instruction is to make sure the probe is firmly inserted into both the wall of the microwave and the food.

Where this code actually appears

On the control panel, and usually with a sound. GE describes their refrigerator codes as flashing green on the display and typically accompanied by a beeping, and the range, microwave and dishwasher tables all describe codes you can read from the front of the appliance. That is the opposite of some makes, where the number is written into a hidden log and never shown — here, if something is wrong, the appliance generally tells you. Photograph what it says before cutting the power, because a reset erases it and the code is most of the diagnosis.

What to do about it

Push the probe fully into its socket and into the food. GE names both, and the food half is the one people miss.

Try a different cooking mode to confirm the appliance is otherwise fine.

If the probe is properly seated and the message stays, the probe or its receptacle is the repair.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is microwave repair, and every one of those pages carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 306-2503](tel:+13053062503) and describe what the display is doing before booking anything.

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