GE WR55X10942 Refrigerator Main Control Board

The media could not be loaded. Finally we have our refrigerator back to normal! In fact, it's better than what "normal" was for several years. We have been trying to get our refrigerator running right for the past month basically - it’s a long story that I can tell you all about, but the bottom line is that this GE Main Control Board was the final solution!A few months ago we started noticing an odd noise coming from our stainless steel side-by-side GE model # GSH25JSTCSS off and on. It sounded like a haunted house and I just kept hoping it wouldn’t totally die on me. Thankfully it didn’t totally die, but after a few months it did freeze up and the refrigerator section warmed up to around 60 degrees F one day. My husband found the source of the haunted house noise which was an evaporator cooling fan and so we thought surely that will be the problem, and we ordered a new fan, he replaced it, and the ghostly noises were gone, but….Nope, it still didn’t cool right. At that time my husband had to leave to go out of town for a couple days so he told me to call a repair guy. I found the best local repairman I could find using Angie’s list and he came out and did the diagnostic test. First of all he checked the fan that hubby had replaced and said it was fine. Then he tested the thermostat and the heating element that defrosts the coils, and they were both fine. So he said the only other thing it could be was the timer switch for the heating element, but it was in the main control panel and that was going to cost almost $200, $300 total with labor (plus I already had to pay close to $80 for the diagnostics). So we thanked him and said we would consider our options.We searched and found this part - the GE WR55X10942 Refrigerator Main Control Board - and it was about half the price of the part from the local guy. We ordered it and it didn’t take very long to come, and we also ordered a new water filter as well! Only a year or so after we bought the fridge we ran into trouble with the water dispenser, but we know now it started with our city water. They had a main water line to bust and dirt got in the line and they didn’t flush the lines enough so dirt clogged our filter in the fridge. We actually didn’t know that was the problem for sure at the time, and we didn’t want to buy a new filter if something else was the problem. I don’t remember all the details but for some reason the icemaker stopped working around the same time. We didn’t know if it was related to the filter issue or what. So we just started using a filter pitcher and buying ice because the warranty was expired. (In the process of repairing our real problems recently, my husband flushed out the water lines and there was all kinds of dirt and mud that came out, so we know now.) When the control panel came, hubby installed it and replaced the filter and we had great tasting water and ice and the refrigerator was cooling again shortly after! But our happiness was very short-lived.Three days later I was taking everything out of the refrigerator because it was warm AGAIN! We had started putting everything into coolers at first but when we realized things were taking so long we bought an old upright fridge since we wanted an extra to go in the utility room anyhow. So now I was transferring everything back over to that fridge and feeling very frustrated! We thought that maybe the local repair guy was mistaken somehow, and since the other two parts he said could possibly have something to do with the coils freezing up were not expensive, we ordered those and hubby replaced those also.Once again things seemed to be great for a day or two, and then back to the same frozen coils and warm fridge. So we called the repair guy back and told him everything and he said that honestly he couldn’t think of anything else and that he had replaced some main control panels in the past that were defective, so we must have gotten a defective one unfortunately. That’s when we requested a new one to replace it, explaining everything as to why we believed it must be defective, and in just a few days there was a new one in our mail!As you can imagine we were very unsure but very hopeful at this point because we definitely didn’t have money for a new refrigerator and had already spent quite a bit on 4 new parts! Well, it’s been a week since hubby replaced the “Muthaboard” again and I am thrilled to say it’s still running perfectly - defrosting itself and maintaining a temp between 32 and 40 in the fridge!So it’s been a very long process but now I can confidently put a brand new gallon of milk in the fridge or anything else I want to stay cold! I can say for sure I do not take my refrigerator for granted anymore! And even though it was somewhat of an ordeal, we still came out way ahead financially compared to having the repair guy to do the work for us. So it was worth it for us in the long run, and I’m so happy to have my fridge back, now with ICE and WATER too! :D

TLDR: This worked great and was easy to install.===========================I figured out my previous circuit board was fried the moment I removed its protective panel a couple days after a power outage; the board was literally "fried" with a capacitor (I believe that's what it was, one the two-centimeter-tall cylindrical twins) blackened and the smell of "fried electronics" wafting out from that area.I wanted to buy a new refrigerator; my current Hotpoint side-by-side with a water/ice delivery system was a part of a foreclosed deal I obtained a year ago and it was scummy (I never really put forth the effort to deep-clean it). After putting a thousand dollars on a credit card for a new fridge, I decided to try out a new circuit board instead after learning a little bit about taking the fridge apart to clean out other components. The return of the credit to my card was a motivator and oddly emboldened me to deep clean the thing while waiting for the circuit board to arrive (very happily with Amazon's pretty reliable Prime Time, by the way!)This circuit board works amazingly. Removing the old one was not enjoyable, as it ended up snapping back upon my hand and probably gave me tetanus or something, but other than that predicted attack the modular connectors were easy to identify and plug into this replacement (I also made sure that the component arrangement matched well, alongside using Amazon's determination tool to verify that this component would work with my refrigerator).So far, everything is working well. The freezer and fridge work again (I no longer have to use the snow-covered North Country New York weather as a temporary cooler!); I haven't tested out the water line and the ice maker honestly, but I assume those would work (the indicator lights and the lights themselves also work as expected).