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title: "Samsung 40E or 40C: ice room fan | IceMakerRepair.center"
description: "What 40E means on Samsung 40E or 40C: ice room fans, what to check before booking, and when it is not a failure at all."
url: "https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-40e/"
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# Samsung 40E or 40C: ice room fan

Samsung lists 40E, or 40C, as an Ice Room Fan problem.

## What 40E actually means.

Samsung lists 40E, or 40C, as an Ice Room Fan problem. On models with an in-door ice maker, that fan pushes freezer air up to the ice compartment; without it, ice forms slowly or not at all and frost can build around the fan.

Samsung ice maker display · also shown as 40C

What to do when 40E shows on the ice maker

### Kind of code Fans and airflow

The fan that moves cold air to the ice maker stopped, slowed or froze in place. A door ice maker depends on that air, carried to the door through a duct, so when the fan quits the ice compartment warms and cubes melt and refreeze into clumps. Ice blocking the blades or the duct is ruled out before a motor is ordered.

### Usually leads to Diagnostic visit

A visit that traces the water from the supply valve to the bin and back out through the drain, and names the one part that stopped the ice before anything is ordered.

### Shows up as No Ice Coming From the Ice Maker

The mold sits empty or holds one frozen batch that never drops, the bin stays bare for days, and the dispenser gives water as usual: an ice maker not making ice while the rest of the appliance carries on normally.

### Make Samsung

Samsung ice maker repair, with the door ice maker, the dispenser and the water line in scope.

### Source Samsung error codes page

Samsung models with an ice room for the in-door ice maker.

## Before you book, in this order.

Each step comes from Samsung's own guidance for 40E on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.

01

Listen at the ice compartment with the door closed for the fan; silence while the ice bin is empty fits this code.

02

If you see frost around the ice maker, unplug the unit and let the ice compartment thaw fully with towels in place.

03

Plug it back in and book a visit if 40E returns within a day or two.

### Still there?

It usually turns into [diagnostic visit](https://icemakerrepair.center/services/diagnostic-visit/). Book with the code and the model number.

### What not to do

40E does not concern the freezer fan or the fresh food fan, which Samsung reports with other numbers. It also is not a water problem, even though the ice maker stops producing.

## What you may notice with it.

The ice maker problems 40E tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.

[All problems](https://icemakerrepair.center/problems/)

Before you call

### [No Ice Coming From the Ice Maker](https://icemakerrepair.center/problems/ice-maker-not-making-ice/)

[All 7 causes, cheapest first](https://icemakerrepair.center/problems/ice-maker-not-making-ice/)

It also comes with

- [**Ice Maker Making Noise**](https://icemakerrepair.center/problems/ice-maker-making-noise/)
- [**Ice Maker Error Code**](https://icemakerrepair.center/problems/ice-maker-error-code/)

Problem

### No Ice Coming From the Ice Maker

7 causes, cheapest first

Where 40E usually leads

## Diagnostic visit.

Book a visit [What the job involves](https://icemakerrepair.center/services/diagnostic-visit/)

## Samsung ice makers.

Samsung ice maker repair, with the door ice maker, the dispenser and the water line in scope.

[Samsung ice maker repair](https://icemakerrepair.center/brands/samsung/)

More Samsung codes

[8E](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-8e/) [14E](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-14e/) [33E](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-33e/) [39E](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-39e/) [Ice Off blinking](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-ice-off-blinking/) [76C](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-76c/) [Several chimes after Test](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/samsung-test-multiple-chimes/)

Fans and airflow on other makes

[Kenmore Er IF](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/kenmore-er-if/) [LG IF](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/lg-if/) [True Residential hi PSI](https://icemakerrepair.center/error-codes/true-hi-psi/)

Samsung builds this

### 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.

Samsung builds this

### 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.

## In Samsung's own words

> Ice Room Fan Error

[Samsung error codes page](https://www.samsung.com/us/support/troubleshooting/TSG10007315/) [Samsung error codes page](https://www.samsung.com/us/support/troubleshooting/TSG10007315/)

Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Samsung models with an ice room for the in-door ice maker.

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## Questions about 40E.

### Can I clear 40E myself?

Listen at the ice compartment with the door closed for the fan; silence while the ice bin is empty fits this code. If it comes back, it needs a visit.

### What is the ice room on a Samsung?

It is the insulated compartment in the fresh food section that holds the door ice maker and its bucket. A fan feeds it cold air from the freezer.

### Can frost cause 40E on a Samsung ice maker?

Frost around the ice room fan can stop the blade, which the control reads as a fan problem. A full thaw sometimes clears it, but the cause of the frost still needs to be found.

### My Samsung shows 40C instead of 40E. Is it different?

Samsung lists 40E and 40C under the same Ice Room Fan meaning. Treat them the same way.

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