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The top edge of a French door refrigerator where the doors meet the cabinet, the hinge cover and the neat run where the door wiring passes, stainless and clean.

Frigidaire refrigerator
showing SY CE

The display board and the main control board have stopped communicating after the refrigerator has been running for a while.

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  • Communication
  • Controls and sensors
  • Source: Frigidaire

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What SY CE
actually means.

The display board and the main control board have stopped communicating after the refrigerator has been running for a while. On Frigidaire's own service sheet, SY CF is the same failure at start-up.

Frigidaire refrigerator display

What to do when SY CE shows on the refrigerator

Kind of codeCommunication

Two boards that stopped hearing each other — the main control and the display, or the inverter. A harness is checked before a board.

Usually leads toControls and sensors

A refrigerator cools to what it believes the temperature is, and a sensor reading wrong is obeyed perfectly.

Shows up asRefrigerator Control Panel Not Responding

Buttons do nothing, the display is blank or frozen, or settings will not hold.

MakeFrigidaire

Freestanding refrigeration and one of the most common standalone freezer brands.

SourceFrigidaire service data sheet A06589001 (archived copy)

The meaning is from Frigidaire's service data sheet A06589001; the owner site lists the code as needing service.

Before you book,
in this order.

Each step comes from Frigidaire's own guidance for SY CE on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.

01

Reset once: press Clear Alerts, or unplug the unit for 30 seconds.

02

If SY CE returns, book a visit.

03

Mention whether it appears straight away or after running for a while — that is the difference between the two codes.

Still there?

It usually turns into controls and sensors. Book with the code and the model number.

What not to do

Do not replace the display on the strength of this code. It names the link between two boards, and the harness is checked first.

What you may
notice with it.

The refrigerator problem SY CE tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.

All problems

Before you call

Refrigerator Control Panel Not Responding

All 5 causes, cheapest first
A finger pressing an unlit, completely blank touch control panel on the front of a refrigerator door. Problem

Refrigerator Control Panel Not Responding

5 causes, cheapest first

Where SY CE usually leads

Controls and sensors.

Control board · moderate.
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Read these
before the visit.

Short guides that make the call quicker and the diagnosis cheaper.

All guides
What you can check yourself

Five observations that narrow a refrigerator problem down before anyone visits

 What you can check yourself

Where the model number hides, and why nothing works without it

 Error codes

All 247 codes, by make

Frigidaire
refrigerators.

Freestanding refrigeration and one of the most common standalone freezer brands.

Frigidaire refrigerator repair

More Frigidaire codes

SY EFPFSY CFOPSHHISB SB77 77Door Ajar

Communication on other makes

Samsung PC ERLG ER COElectrolux SY CEBosch E02U-Line No CommTrue Residential Communication ErrorBertazzoni E6ASKO E0
All 19 codes of this kind
A French door refrigerator with both upper doors swung open and the lower freezer drawer pulled out. Frigidaire builds this

French door refrigerator

Two fresh-food doors over a freezer drawer — the most common premium layout, and the one with the most to go wrong at the door line.

 A side-by-side refrigerator with a tall freezer door on the left carrying an ice and water dispenser recess. Frigidaire builds this

Side-by-side refrigerator

Full-height freezer beside full-height fresh food, with the ice maker and dispenser built into the freezer door.

In Frigidaire's own words

SY CE UI to Main Board communication error; after a period in operation
Frigidaire service data sheet A06589001 (archived copy) Frigidaire owner support: alarms and error messages

Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. The meaning is from Frigidaire's service data sheet A06589001; the owner site lists the code as needing service.

Frigidaire SY CE refrigerator repair,
where we come out.

The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.

All service areas

Tampa BayFL · 31 areas

OrlandoFL · 30 areas

Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas

New York MetroNY · 75 areas

HoustonTX · 36 areas

ChicagoIL · 50 areas

Los AngelesCA · 95 areas

San DiegoCA · 31 areas

San Francisco Bay AreaCA · 74 areas

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Questions
about SY CE.

Can I clear SY CE myself?
Reset once: press Clear Alerts, or unplug the unit for 30 seconds. If it comes back, it needs a visit.
What is the difference between SY CE and SY CF on a Frigidaire?
Both are the display and main board losing contact, but SY CE happens after the unit has been running and SY CF at start-up. Whether it showed up straight after power-on or hours later is worth passing on.
Should I replace the Frigidaire display for SY CE?
No, the code points at the link between two boards, and the harness is checked before any board. Try one reset with Clear Alerts or a 30-second unplug, then book a visit if it returns.

Back to your everyday

Still showing SY CE?

Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.

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