GE Profile Opal with a yellow front button
On the original Opal with a round button on the front, a yellow button means the unit is in cleaning mode and will not produce ice.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: GE Profile
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What Yellow front button
actually means.
On the original Opal with a round button on the front, a yellow button means the unit is in cleaning mode and will not produce ice. The mode is chosen by the switch on the back.
GE Profile ice maker display
What to do when Yellow front button shows on the ice makerKind of codeMode, not a failure
Something the ice maker was switched into, often without anyone noticing, rather than something that broke: ice turned off from the panel or by the wire arm lifted while reaching into the bin, a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a cleaning cycle still running, a reminder that the water filter is due. No part has worn out, and the ice maker's own buttons or arm put it right.
Usually leads toNo repair
Find the switch on the back of the Opal.
Shows up asNugget Ice Maker Not Making Nugget Ice
A nugget ice maker not making ice runs and hums but drops nothing, makes wet slush instead of crisp pellets, or stops after a few batches with a light on.
MakeGE Profile
GE Profile ice maker repair, including the countertop nugget ice makers that run from a reservoir instead of a water line.
SourceGE Appliances support: Opal Ice Maker - Not Making Ice
Original GE Profile Opal with a round front button (OPAL01GEPKT).
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from GE Profile's own guidance for Yellow front button on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Find the switch on the back of the Opal.
Slide it to ICE; the unit then starts making ice.
Expect about five minutes of flushing with the button white before ice appears.
If the button stays yellow with the switch on ICE, book a visit.
Cleared?
The ice maker is filling and dropping cubes again and no part was needed. If the same code returns during the next harvest, or water shows up on the floor again, book it as a new problem.
What not to do
A yellow button is not a warning that the Opal is failing. It only reports which position the back switch is in.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems Yellow front button tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
No repair indicated
Nothing to repair.
Something the ice maker was switched into, often without anyone noticing, rather than something that broke: ice turned off from the panel or by the wire arm lifted while reaching into the bin, a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a cleaning cycle still running, a reminder that the water filter is due. No part has worn out, and the ice maker's own buttons or arm put it right.
GE Profile
ice makers.
GE Profile ice maker repair, including the countertop nugget ice makers that run from a reservoir instead of a water line.
GE Profile ice maker repairMore GE Profile codes
Mode, not a failure on other makes
Door ice maker
The ice maker that feeds the dispenser on the outside of a door: tucked into an insulated box in the left door of a French door model, or at the top of the freezer side of a side-by-side, with a chute and an auger carrying cubes to your glass.
Freezer ice maker
The ice maker that sits inside the freezer compartment itself, a tray that twists or a mold with a heater and an ejector, dropping cubes into a bin or drawer you open by hand, with no dispenser on the door.
Undercounter ice maker
A built-in residential ice maker that lives under a kitchen, bar or basement counter, making clear cubes or chewable nugget ice on its own cooling system, with a water line in and a gravity drain or a small drain pump out.
In GE Profile's own words
If the button on the front is yellow, the Opal is set in the cleaning mode and will not produce ice.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Original GE Profile Opal with a round front button (OPAL01GEPKT).
GE Profile Yellow front button ice maker 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.
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Questions
about Yellow front button.
Can I clear Yellow front button myself?
Why is the button on my first-generation Opal yellow?
What does a white button mean on an original Opal?
My original Opal still makes no ice after I move the switch; what now?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Yellow front button?
Book with the code or the blink pattern written exactly as the ice maker shows it, the full model number, and whether there is any water on the floor — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.