--- title: "GE stove showing Bad Line | StoveRepair.center" description: "What Bad Line means on GE stoves, what to check before booking, and when it is not a failure at all." url: "https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-bad-line/" --- # GE stove showing Bad Line Bad Line appears when a GE stove is getting power but the supply is connected incorrectly, usually right after an install or a move. ## What Bad Line actually means. Bad Line appears when a GE stove is getting power but the supply is connected incorrectly, usually right after an install or a move. GE says an installer or electrician fixes the wiring and then the oven works normally. GE stove display What to do when Bad Line shows on the stove ### Kind of code Control board and power The main board failed its own start-up check, lost contact with the display, or saw the supply voltage sag too low, often after a storm, a power outage or a spill that ran down behind the panel. The breaker, the cord and the outlet are ruled out before a board is replaced. A stove that sparks, smells of hot wiring or keeps heating while this code shows is switched off at the breaker first. ### Usually leads to Control board and display repair Stoves with a blank or flashing display, touch keys that do not answer, codes that keep returning or a stove that will not turn on, traced to the board, the keypad or the power to them. ### Shows up as Stove Won't Turn On Nothing happens anywhere on the stove: no burner heats, the oven stays cold, the clock and lights are dark, or the display lights up but nothing will start. ### Make GE GE Appliances, owned by Haier, makes some of the most common stoves in American kitchens. ### Source GE Appliances support: oven error and function code list GE ranges and stoves with an electronic oven control. GE says its list covers the most common codes, not every code on every past and present model. ## Before you book, in this order. Each step comes from GE's own guidance for Bad Line on its stoves. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit. 01 Do not keep switching the stove on and off to test it. 02 Turn the breaker off. 03 Have an installer or electrician check the power cord or junction box connection, then book a visit if the stove still misbehaves once the wiring is correct. ### Still there? It usually turns into [control board and display repair](https://stoverepair.center/services/control-board-and-display-repair/). Book with the code and the model number. ### What not to do Bad Line is not a broken stove or a failed control board. The appliance is reporting a mistake in how it is connected to the house. ## What you may notice with it. The stove problems Bad Line tends to arrive with. Answer these at the stove before anyone is booked. [All problems](https://stoverepair.center/problems/) Before you call ### [Stove Won't Turn On](https://stoverepair.center/problems/stove-wont-turn-on/) [All 6 causes, cheapest first](https://stoverepair.center/problems/stove-wont-turn-on/) It also comes with - [**Stove Error Code**](https://stoverepair.center/problems/stove-error-code/) Problem ### Stove Won't Turn On 6 causes, cheapest first Where Bad Line usually leads ## Control board and display repair. **Control board, keypad or display · moderate.** Book a visit [What the job involves](https://stoverepair.center/services/control-board-and-display-repair/) ## GE stoves. GE Appliances, owned by Haier, makes some of the most common stoves in American kitchens. [GE stove repair](https://stoverepair.center/brands/ge/) More GE codes [F1](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-f1/) [F2](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-f2/) [F3](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-f3/) [F5](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-f5/) [F9](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-f9/) [FF](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-ff/) [F96](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-f96/) [Unlock Door](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-unlock-door/) [Loc Door](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-loc-door/) [LOC](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-loc/) [ERR](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-err/) [OFF](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-off/) [All 14 GE codes](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/#codes-ge) Control board and power on other makes [AGA CE](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/aga-ce/) [BlueStar F20](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/bluestar-f20/) [Bosch e005](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/bosch-e005/) [Café F97](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/cafe-f97/) [Dacor C-F0](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/dacor-c-f0/) [Electrolux Err](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/electrolux-err/) [Fisher & Paykel F](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/fisher-and-paykel-f/) [Frigidaire F3](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/frigidaire-f3/) [All 76 codes of this kind](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/#family-board) GE builds this ### Gas stove A stove with gas burners on top, whether its oven below runs on gas too or on electricity, fed by one gas line behind it and plugged into a wall outlet for the spark. GE builds this ### Electric stove A stove that runs entirely on electricity through a heavy cord and a large outlet behind it, with coil burners that lift out or a smooth glass stovetop with elements under it. ## In GE's own words > This code displays when power is applied to the unit but it has not been wired correctly. [GE Appliances support: oven error and function code list](https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-support-search-content?contentId=16238) [GE Appliances support: oven error and function code list](https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-support-search-content?contentId=16238) Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. GE ranges and stoves with an electronic oven control. GE says its list covers the most common codes, not every code on every past and present model. ## GE Bad Line stove repair, where we come out. 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Do not keep switching the stove on and off to test it. If it comes back, it needs a visit. ### Why does my GE stove show Bad Line after we moved? Moving means the power cord was reconnected, often to a different outlet or cord kit. Bad Line tells you that connection is wrong, not that the stove was damaged in the move. ### Is Bad Line on a GE stove something I can fix myself? It is a wiring job at the terminal block or outlet, so GE sends it to an installer or electrician. Keep the breaker off until then. ### Will a new power cord clear Bad Line on my GE? Only if the old cord was wired wrong. The fix is a correct connection, which an installer or electrician checks. --- **[Read on the site: GE stove showing Bad Line | StoveRepair.center](https://stoverepair.center/error-codes/ge-bad-line/)** **[Book a visit with StoveRepair.center](https://stoverepair.center/schedule/)**