GE stove
showing FF
FF sits in GE's list next to F5 and F8 as a sign that the electronic oven control is at the end of its useful life.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Control board and power
- Control board and display repair
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What FF
actually means.
FF sits in GE's list next to F5 and F8 as a sign that the electronic oven control is at the end of its useful life. The control has found a problem in its own circuitry rather than in a part it runs.
GE stove display
What to do when FF 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 FF on its stoves. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Write down the exact letters shown so they can be checked against your model's control.
Reset the breaker for a minute or two.
If FF stays, leave the breaker off between burner uses and book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into control board and display repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
FF is not the display showing a temperature in Fahrenheit. It is a code, and it stays on screen instead of the time or oven temperature.
What you may
notice with it.
The stove problems FF tends to arrive with. Answer these at the stove before anyone is booked.
All problems
Stove Won't Turn On
6 causes, cheapest first
Where FF 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 usually means that the electronic control needs to be replaced.
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 FF 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 FF?
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.