--- title: "Start from what the machine is doing, not from what it is called." description: "24 behaviors in the words somebody would actually use, and what each usually points at on this make." url: "https://askomiami.support/symptoms/" date_modified: "2026-09-13" --- # Asko troubleshooting: start from what it is doing ## Start from what the machine is doing, not from what it is called. Each page says what the behavior usually means, what is free to check first, and which code — if any — describes it on your generation. Several of them end with us saying nothing is wrong. 24 — behaviors written up 17 — strings meaning different things 7 — machines that publish no codes from $95 — diagnostic, credited to the repair ## All 24 behaviors Grouped by the machine they belong to. No symptoms published yet. ## The same digits mean different things A dishwasher that will not drain is F11 on a display machine, a blink pattern on a legacy board, and F:45 on the Outdoor door. One behavior, three labels, and two of them collide with numbers that mean something else entirely. So the behavior is the stable thing to search for, and every page that names codes names them across the platforms rather than pretending there is one answer. ## Six kinds of machine publish no codes at all Ovens and microwaves display a string their manuals never decode. Hoods have no troubleshooting section whatsoever — three manuals were read and none has one. Refrigeration, freezers and ranges carry symptom tables and no numbers. Each of those absences was read on a page of a manufacturer manual rather than concluded from a silent display, and that distinction is the difference between knowing and not finding. ## Three things that are free Always worth doing - Clear the filter — dishwasher stack, washer pump filter, dryer condenser. - Check the machine has drained before deciding it will not spin or open. Write down - The model code, and the exact characters on the display. - When in the cycle it happens, and whether it is every time. ## By the code on the display If the machine is showing something, and you know which generation it is. ## Some of these need nothing at all An imbalance message on a washer is the machine reporting that it redistributed the load and carried on — the manual says in as many words that it requires no action. A dishwasher door that opens itself at the end is the drying system. A steril tub alert is a cleaning cycle preparing to unlock. They are published here because they appear where errors appear, and everybody reasonably reads them as problems. ## The questions this page is asked There is no code and nothing on the display. — On several of these machines that is the normal state. Refrigeration, freezers, hoods and ranges publish no codes on this badge at all, so silence proves nothing either way and the reading comes from behavior — readings, frost patterns, cycle times. My code is not on your list. — Tell us the model with it. Some strings exist only on one revision of one platform, and some — the dishwasher numbers between F13 and F39, for example — appear in no consumer manual anywhere. Where nothing published decodes a string, we say so rather than inventing a meaning. Can I keep using the machine? — It depends which behavior, and each page says. Water on the floor, a microwave door with play in it and a cracked induction top are the three where the answer is stop now. Most of the rest are inconvenient rather than urgent. ## Why this list is shaped the way it is ### Weighted to the machines that are actually here Five behaviors each for the dishwasher, the washer and the dryer, because that is what this maker sells in the United States and what most of these calls are about. The kitchen machines take the behaviors they genuinely produce. ### Where the codes come from 87 codes and 18 signals, across 18 platforms, every one read off a manufacturer manual with a page reference. 16 strings that circulate online without any manufacturer citation are recorded as refused rather than repeated. ## Not sure which of these it is? Tell us what the machine is doing and the model code off its door edge, and we will say which page you are on. Where a diagnostic is the right next step it is from $95, credited toward the repair. --- **[Read full article: Asko troubleshooting: start from what it is doing](https://askomiami.support/symptoms-archive/)**