I can't speak to repairs, but I've had my Samsung French Door fridge for about three months and LOVE it. Full depth. I dig the set up. Great temperature consistency throughout. This is my first bottom freezer configuration and I find it very convenient. It's no more jumbled than my side by side was---since I had to smoosh everything into that one! At least I can move things around easily in the bottom freezer. I think it's very easy to get things out, especially with the ergonomic Samsung freezer handle. Love mine!

I too have a Samsung FD, full depth. Lots of room(as I said in my reply to your other post). Things are easy to find, unless they are at the bottom-the lower drawer is deep. Of course, it's easy to love your appliances when they are not even a couple of years old and things haven't started to go wrong yet. I'm not looking forward to that.

Thank you for your replies. The way DH was talking last night, I had no doubt we'd replace the fridge instead of repairing it. Someone obviously woke up in a different world this morning because he said "I think we better just repair it" (sigh). Your advice has been helpful tho. The fridge is 8 years old. This day and age, I don't see it lasting more than a couple years.
Monica

The chances are just as well that the unit will continue to run OK for quite some time after the repair.

If the fix is only $412 (assuming that includes labor) then perhaps it is best to repair it vs. spending $1500 on a new fridge.

dadoes, before the repair today the refrigerator would stopped running when a door was opened. After the circuit board was replaced today, the fridge keeps running when the doors are open. Which way is right? It's a 8 yo GE Arctica, model # is PSS25MGN

gsciencechick, yes, $412 included labor. We could have bought the part ourselves for $120 and "plugged it in" That's all there was to it. By the time I called the two shops that had the part, it was too late to make it there before they closed (early on Sat.)
Monica

Monica,

I have an Arctica between 5 and 6 years, don't know the model # and am not home at the moment to check. I have two ongoing issues with it. Thankfully, neither one is related to cooling (or lack thereof). During periods of high humidity, condensation sometimes seeps from around the dispenser bezel. There was a recall notice on several GE/Hotpoint SxS models for that problem, but my model is not included. When I called GE about it, the rep said they've apparently not had any complaints on my model. I told her, "You have now." But honestly, I know it's related to high room humidity moreso than a direct problem with the unit. My thoughts are that refrigerators nowadays are designed/engineered to operate within a "normal" room environ, and as you know in TX, the environment occasionally goes to extremes. I've noticed that the moisture seepage pretty much stopped since I've been home all day and not raising the air conditioning temp.

Also the "flapper" device that closes-off the ice chute has started hanging open, which results in humid room air going up inside, condensing into a heavy frost accumulation inside the door chute and on the outlet of the ice bucket. Simple workaround is poke a finger up in there to bump it closed after using the ice dispenser.

Anyway, in regards to your question ... mine also shuts off the interior evaporator fans (except for the chill/defrost drawer) when the doors are opened. Could be they're kept on now due to a programming change on the board. Sorry, I don't know for sure.