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Ran HE3 without Water, it's now locked up

We went on vacation, and turned off the water. When we returned, my wife tried to run the machine without turning the water back on.

It ran for a while and then began beeping. I turned the water back on, but to no avail. It now seems to be in a drain mode, the door is locked and we can't seem to abort the cycle or restart.

Is there any way to reset this thing (unplugging and plugging in again does not seem to reset it).

  • Anonymous Sep 13, 2008

    Same with us, ran machine, forgetting that husband cut off the water. Machine makes draining noise, wont unlock, did some beeping, couldn't cancel, unplugged then plugged two times to no avail...

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Unplug the washer and wait 30 minutes, sometimes the next morning for the machine to reset. Make sure the water is on because it while find multiple failures and lock up, Secondly you can try putting the machine into diagnostic cycle to ensure it is ok. Press drain/spin and select no spin for spin speed finally press prewash quickly two or three times and let it run, any flashing codes?, hit prewash again after writing the codes down.

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