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.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Control board and power
- Control board and display repair
- Source: GE
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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 stoveKind of codeControl 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 toControl 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 asStove 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.
MakeGE
GE Appliances, owned by Haier, makes some of the most common stoves in American kitchens.
SourceGE 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.
Do not keep switching the stove on and off to test it.
Turn the breaker off.
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. 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
Where Bad Line usually leads
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Bad Line?
Book with the code written exactly as the stove shows it, the full model number, and whether you notice any smell of gas or hot wiring — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.