--- title: "Fisher & Paykel error codes, and the machine matters more than the number." description: "Fisher & Paykel error codes read properly: A1 is an overheated oven and a drawer that did not fill, so the appliance matters as much as the number." url: "https://fisherpaykelmiami.support/error-codes/" date_modified: "2026-08-26" --- # Error codes archive ## Fisher & Paykel error codes, and the machine matters more than the number. A1 is an overheated oven and a DishDrawer that did not fill. A3 is a door that will not unlock and a drawer that will not drain. On this maker a code belongs to the appliance, not to the badge — so every page here names the machine in its own title, and the first thing to tell us is which one you are looking at. 234 — conditions published 25 — with a meaning the maker prints 122 — user guides read from $95 — diagnostic, credited to the repair ## Type what the display is showing Partial entries work, and letters matter here — FDOR is not F. If your machine has no display at all, describe the pattern of flashing lights instead and start from the symptom pages. The same number belongs to more than one machine on this maker, so the results name the appliance as well as the code. Nothing here is invented: where the maker publishes a family of conditions rather than a meaning, the page publishes the family and says so. ## A letter, a number, and a machine. All three are the code. This maker uses a letter to say what kind of condition it is and a number to identify it — but the same letter and number mean different things on different appliances, because each machine carries its own table. Reading a code without knowing the machine is reading somebody else's problem. 234 conditions, of which 25 carry a meaning the maker actually prints. The rest are published as families, and those pages say so in their first paragraph rather than filling the space with a checklist. That is the honest shape of this maker's documentation, and it is worth knowing before you trust a longer list somewhere else. ## Read off 122 user guides, because the web pages are gone. This maker used to publish its codes on a public support wiki. That site now redirects to a login page, and the knowledge base behind it is closed. So the codes on this site were read somewhere else: the **English User Guide of every machine in the current US line**, downloaded from the maker’s own document library and read as text. 122 guides, 57 of them carrying a chapter of codes, reducing to seven distinct tables. The rest came from the maker’s own **support articles**, which publish codes as families rather than one by one. Both sources are the manufacturer’s. Neither is an aggregator, and nothing here was inferred from a sibling brand. ## Four things worth doing while the code is still on the screen A code is evidence, and on this maker it is evidence that disappears the moment the machine is switched off. Write it down exactly - Letters included — on this maker the letter carries half the information - FDOR is not F - A photograph is easier than transcribing Note which machine, and which part of it - Which drawer on a double DishDrawer, which cavity on a double oven - Which zone on a triple-zone freezer On a DishDrawer, photograph the lights - There is no number to write down - The pattern of flashing indicators is the code, and it goes when the machine is switched off On refrigeration, count - The maker's own instruction is to count the beeps, or count along the LED panel to the flashing light - Five beeps is F5 ## Start with the appliance, then the number Because on this maker the machine decides what the number means. Pick yours and the codes below it are the ones that belong to it. ## A code is not the whole diagnosis, and it is not the limit of what we repair. Most of what goes wrong on this equipment never produces a number: a burner that will not hold a simmer, a drawer that will not open, a wine cabinet two degrees warm, a dryer that has quietly got slower. If your machine is misbehaving without saying anything, describe it in your own words when you book — that is most of our work. ## The questions this archive is asked Why does my code have no meaning on your page? — Because the manufacturer does not publish one. On its ovens it groups around sixty F numbers into four families and prints a single instruction for all of them; on refrigeration, freezers, wine cabinets and induction cooktops it does the same. We publish the family and say so. A table that assigned a specific meaning to each number would look more useful and would be invented, and an invented code meaning costs you a visit. Another site lists a meaning for every number. Are they wrong? — They are certainly not reading it off this maker's own paper, because this maker does not print it. Some of those lists are other brands' tables with the badge changed, which on a maker as unusual as this one — a dishwasher that is a drawer, refrigeration that reports by beeping — is a good way to arrive at the wrong part. The same code appears on two of my appliances. — Then they are two different conditions. A1 is an overheated oven and a DishDrawer that did not fill; A3 is an oven door that will not unlock and a drawer that will not drain. This is the single most important thing to know about this maker's codes, and it is why every page here names the machine in its title. Can I just reset it? — Often, and the maker publishes how: power off at the supply, wait — one minute for most conditions, five for the lettered oven ones — then restart. What matters is what happens next. A code that stays away was a control that locked up; a code that returns immediately is the machine reporting something it can still see, and that is a real condition rather than a glitch. Either way, write it down before you clear it. Why is there nothing here for my older machine? — Because the maker's US support base lists only machines it still sells — every model in it has at least one finish still current. The DishDrawer generations of the 2000s and the SmartDrive laundry are not in it, so there is no first-party table for them to read. We would rather say that than publish something we cannot stand behind. Tell us what the machine is doing and we will work from that. Do you charge to read a code? — No. Tell us the code and the machine when you book and we will narrow it on the phone at no cost. What is charged is the diagnostic visit, from $95, and it is credited toward the repair when you go ahead. ## Where these 234 conditions come from, and why most of them arrive as families ### The maker’s own web pages for this are gone The address that used to publish this maker’s error codes now redirects to a marketing site, and the knowledge base behind it asks for a login on every article. So this archive was not copied from a page; it was **read off 122 of the maker’s own English user guides**, downloaded as PDFs, plus its public support data and the 150 troubleshooting articles it wrote about its own machines. Fifty-seven of those guides carry a chapter of codes, and between them those chapters reduce to seven distinct tables. ### Twenty-five carry a printed meaning. The other 209 are published as families That is the honest shape of this maker’s documentation, and it is worth knowing before you trust a longer list somewhere else. Where a guide prints “temperature sensor errors — F3, F4, F5”, we publish that as a family and the page says so in its first paragraph. What we do not do is invent a specific meaning for F4 because a page needed one. A code page that is confidently wrong costs you a part, and then a visit. ### The number belongs to the machine, not to the badge This is the single most useful thing to understand about this maker’s codes. **A1** is an oven that has overheated *and* a DishDrawer that did not take water. **A3** is a door that will not unlock *and* a drawer that will not drain. Every page in this archive names the appliance in its title for that reason, and the search above returns the appliance beside the code rather than the code alone. ### And a great deal of this equipment has no number at all A **DishDrawer** has no display: it flashes a pattern of program and modifier lights, and that pattern is the code. A **refrigerator** counts beeps and lights an LED — the maker’s own instruction is to count them, because five beeps is F5. An **induction cooktop** can show a bare E with nothing after it, and not one of this maker’s forty-six cooktop guides carries a code table of any kind. If your machine is telling you something without a number, the symptom pages are the main road rather than the fallback. ## Tell us the code and the machine it is on. Both halves matter on this maker. You will have the scope and the price in writing before anything is opened. --- **[Read full article: Error codes archive](https://fisherpaykelmiami.support/error-codes-archive/)**