My GE Profile PTS25LHP has the freezer on top. Periodically the freezer warms up substantially, but then goes back to freezing.

I noticed that on Christmas eve (Wednesday) it slowly started warming and got up to the 30s on Christmas Day. By the day after Christmas, it was fine.

On New Years Eve (Wednesday), it started warming again and this time got up to the 50s. The refrigerator portion stayed fine until the freezer hit the 40s, then it warmed up to about the same temperature. This time it didn't go back to freezing until Saturday.

Both time I could hear the freezer running. It wasn't that loud, but it's usually so quiet I never notice it. It ran non stop.

Is this something small that I could try to fix, or should I call in a repair person?

If it matters, the ice maker hasn't worked for a few years.

Thanks!

I'd first check your condenser coils under your refrigerator, if they get clogged with pet hair/dirt/lint it was cause a cooling issue like this. Just pull off your kickplate grill under your refrigerator door, and you can vacuum it out. Also pull your refrigerator away from the wall, then take off the lower back access panel and see if your condenser fan that sits next to your compressor is running.

Let us know what you find.

Jake

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I didn't see anything obvious and it didn't warm up again for a month. A repair guy came out and ruled out the fans and the compressor. He said that really only left the mainboard. Said they'd replaced many of these lately. I wasn't thrilled with it being the answer only because everything else had been ruled out. There was nothing blatantly wrong when he pulled it out.

Roughly $300 later, I have a new mainboard. I'm trying to decide whether to also replace the ice maker. I turned it off several years ago because it stopped working. It would drip some water and have a short icicle. Finally it stopped making ice.

Now it's making ice again but I do see the icicle. Not sure if I should spend ballpark $100 to replace the ice maker on what they say is probably a bad seal.

I hate deciding when to stop investing money in repair money pits.

Thanks for the help.

Yes, the GE motherboards have been going bad left and right the last few years, there must be more than 100 posts on it in our GE forums here.

Some even qualify for a free motherboard, read post#8 here:
http://www.applianceblog.com/mainforums/showthread.php?t=7561

Not sure what to tell you on ice maker, if its something you can live without, then don't invest the money into a new one. You can always still make ice the old fashioned way with flexible ice trays.

Jake

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