Samsung refrigerator
showing 40E
40E is Samsung's code for the ice room fan, the fan that moves cold air into the ice compartment.
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What 40E
actually means.
40E is Samsung's code for the ice room fan, the fan that moves cold air into the ice compartment. Samsung lists it among the codes that need a service visit rather than owner steps. It concerns ice making rather than the main compartments.
Samsung refrigerator display · also shown as 40C
What to do when 40E shows on the refrigeratorKind of codeFan circuit
A fan the control board expected to be turning is not — a motor that has failed, or ice holding the blade still.
Usually leads toFan and airflow repair
Two fans, two completely different failures — one stops the cold arriving, the other stops the heat leaving.
Shows up asFresh Food Section Warm, Freezer Cold
The single most diagnostic pattern on a refrigerator, and almost never the compressor.
MakeSamsung
French door refrigeration with large displays, flexible compartments and complex ice systems.
SourceSamsung US support: refrigerator error codes
Models with an ice compartment in the fresh food door. Shown as 40E or 40C.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Samsung's own guidance for 40E on its refrigerators. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Note the code, including whether it ends in E or C.
Check whether ice production has slowed or stopped.
Book a service visit; Samsung gives no owner procedure for this code.
What not to do
It is not 21E or 22E. Those are the freezer and fresh food fans; 40E is the smaller fan serving the ice compartment.
What you may
notice with it.
The refrigerator problems 40E tends to arrive with. Answer these at the refrigerator before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where 40E usually leads
Fan and airflow repair.
Read these
before the visit.
Short guides that make the call quicker and the diagnosis cheaper.
All guidesSamsung
refrigerators.
French door refrigeration with large displays, flexible compartments and complex ice systems.
Samsung refrigerator repair
In Samsung's own words
40E, 40C: Ice Room Fan Error
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Models with an ice compartment in the fresh food door. Shown as 40E or 40C.
Samsung 40E 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 areasTampa BayFL · 31 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
Questions
about 40E.
Can I clear 40E myself?
Does 40E on my Samsung mean the whole fridge will stop cooling?
Is there an owner fix for Samsung 40E?
Back to your everyday
Still showing 40E?
Book with the exact characters, the full model number, and whether it is still cooling — on a code, that is the whole starting point.