GE Microwave keypad not working says shorted may need service. Microwave service

[@jimbozisan]

Keypad was dead on ours. No power. Left power cable unplugged for about 10 minutes. No luck. Left unplugged for over a day, plugged in, works fine so far. Thanks so much for the video!

[@WeifengPan]

I just saved $500 by watching this video. Thank you!! By the way, you don't need to disconnect any other wires. The entire fix is less than 5 minutes

[@raymondromero2840]

Awesome glad it helped you. Yes it is quick, I just had to take it out to zoom in for the video. God bless thanks for watching.

[@davearboleda9498]

Removed as instructed and cleaned ribbon contact with vinegar on napkin. It didn’t work the first time I reseated the ribbon. But it worked the second time! Maybe I didn’t reseat it properly the first time. Thanks for great video and saving me money!

[@caroltino3779]

Just saved me the cost of replacing my microwave. Thank you!

[@christinedelrossi3291]

It worked! Thank you so much - you saved me a bundle! I didn't disconnect everything, i just pressed the green ribbon in a little bit! UNBEEEELEEEEABLE! Thank you.

[@womanualaborhs2013]

Just Pull The White Clip Holding The Ribbon Up...No Need To Pull All The Way Out...Slide Ribbon Out Wipe W/Vinegar & Reseat...Snap White Piece Back In Place...Very Good Video!

[@raymondromero2840]

Awesome thanks for the info. If it does this again, I will do just that. Thank you.

[@womanualaborhs2013]

@@raymondromero2840 Funny Thing Is, A Couple Days After Doing This It Quit AGAIN...I Got Mad & Tapped It (NOT HARD - But Enuf 2 Jolt It) Along The Side Of The Keypad & It's Been Work'n Ever Since - GO FIGURE😅😂🤣

[@raymondromero2840]

@@womanualaborhs2013 That is crazy, at least no there is a fix for that. Lol

[@raymondromero2840]

Now*

[@andrewrose2419]

Thanks a lot bro your video was a perfect help worked just as you said.

[@richardr5013]

Awesome, Thank you very much. God bless brother

[@mikemason5366]

Thanks, I am going to try this tomorrow 7/26/2022!

[@mariacolon4121]

Thank You very much it did work for me you save me some 44,God Bless you.

[@Elephantine999]

It worked! 20 minutes! :)

[@protoculture4027]

Worked like a charm. Key is to clean all contacts w plenty of rubbing alcohol

[@cindymiller2928]

Cleaned the contacts on the ribbon cable , everything looks good. Put it back together and so far works great.

[@PritiGoel]

Hi Ray .....what exactly did you do with the Ribbon....not clear on Video

[@olaphillips9600]

7/1/2023 It came back on correctly but it only stayed on for about 10 minutes then went back to the old message saying board need some service. It started beeping again. What do I do at this point ?

[@carolpotter9677]

Same thing happened to me. What did you do then?

[@lisaratusz5251]

Thanks for this video! Huge help?🤗

[@LernaMitchell]

Thank you 👍

[@ericburch6847]

I made the adjustment to the ribbon. I couldn't unplug the 2 connections next to it so I left those plugged in. It worked for about a half hour then the keypad short warning went off again. Is it important to unplug all the connections? I'm asking of course because I didn't

[@raymondromero2840]

I would definitely unplug all to make sure.

[@cathyorendorf]

I didn't need to remove all of the wires, I just slid the ribbon out (WoMaanual mentions using white vinegar to clean ribbon and I wish I had read that before putting the unit back together, it's probably a good idea). I think this occured due to the fact that we are waiting on warranty repairs of our on demand water heater, I was heating hot water for dishwashing on my stove, and didn't turn on the vent. This repair worked, but the next morning when I came out to the kitchen I had the same problem. I don't know if there is a glue on the ribbon that melted or not.

[@raymondromero2840]

Yes so some one else said that they had the same issue. After using the stove under the micro to heat the house because they lost power. I recommended using electrical grease or silicone, because it is sorta greasy and sticky they haven't ran into the issue again and it's been some months now. But I did let them know to use electrical cleaner prior to applying the silicone.

[@olaphillips9600]

Did not work!

[@timbo6806]

I'm wondering if anyone discharged the capacitor before disconnecting? My MW has lots of warnings and the capacitor in mine says it's 2100 volts. Is this safe to do with out discharging it?

[@jackieofalltrades5328]

I didn’t take mine apart yet but it seems to me mine starts acting up if you cook something on the stove, especially something steamy and not run the vent fan at the same time. I’ll usually unplug for several days and it comes back to life but not this last time it didn’t. I can get it to work for one thing (heating, turn on vent fan, etc) and then it goes bonkers after a minute and I have to unplug it and let it sit for a day before it works again. Anyone else have the same problem?

[@cindywiner2772]

how did you unplug it!!!!!!

[@boashna]

go to fuse box and cut off power

[@staceycarter9486]

Didn't work for me. I tried several times