I’ll spare you the background as there’s ample horror stories of Samsung appliances (especially refrigerators). I would never have bought this one, but it came with the house. To its credit, it’s been working flawlessly the last 5 years, but I knew it was only a matter of time before its Samsung-iness reared its ugly head.
I’m not sure which control board is glitching out, but the symptoms are all in the front panel where the ice/water dispenser is. The fridge still cools, but the front panel is haunted on a good day (cycles through the settings by itself, but you can still use it if you fight it) and just doesn’t work at all on other days. So I guess the fridge still works as long as I don’t wanna do anything crazy like adjust the temperature, select between water and ice, or turn the ice maker on/off. Hurrah?
Ordered a replacement front panel board from ebay and hoping that’s the board that’s at fault. If it’s the “main” control board, I’m probably going to get rid of the fridge.
I would really like it if we could get to the point where we give an LLM an image of a board like this and it can identify failures. One of my primary hobbies is mechanical keyboards. I have one where I did a piss poor job soldering on a new hotswap socket, and now it does not work. I will try replacing it, but I can’t tell if my horrendous solder work messed it up, or if I damaged something else somewhere on the board. I will eventually try again, but you get what I’m saying.