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title: "Viking Ice Maker Reset: Where the Button Is, and the Three Checks That Come First"
description: "Viking refrigerator ice maker reset, the same on an undercounter machine, the three free checks that come first, and why no code is published for any."
url: "https://vikingmiami.support/blog/viking-ice-maker-reset/"
date_modified: "2026-08-21"
Category: "Troubleshooting"
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# Viking Ice Maker Reset: Where the Button Is, and the Three Checks That Come First

## A Viking refrigerator ice maker reset is the last of four steps, not the first

An ice machine is a chain: **water in, freeze, harvest, drain**. A reset restarts the control at the top of that chain and changes nothing about the three links after it.

Most of the machines we are called to are not broken in the control. They are **starved** — not getting enough water, or not able to get rid of what they melt.

## The three free checks

**The supply valve.** Under the sink or behind the cabinet, and closed or partly closed after other work is a genuinely common finding. Partly open is worse than closed, because the machine runs and produces almost nothing.

**The filter date.** If nobody knows, that is the answer. An exhausted cartridge reduces flow gradually, and gradual is exactly what slow production feels like.

**The drain.** Every one of these machines requires one, and the pump is an accessory rather than a substitute for gravity. Pour water through and watch it go — a drain that looks clear and does not flow is the single most common finding on a machine that is leaking or stalling.

That last one is worth repeating because it is the item most often improvised. When an island run of undercounter cabinets is fitted quickly, the drain for the ice machine is the thing that gets treated as advice rather than as a requirement — and it comes back months later as water on a floor.

## Where the switch actually is

On a **refrigerator ice maker**, at the cabinet's control panel, or on a paddle or switch inside the freezer compartment depending on generation.

On a **dedicated undercounter ice machine**, inside, behind the door — a power switch on the frame or on the control. It is not on the front and people frequently cannot find it.

## Give it a proper cycle

Several hours before the bin looks like anything at all. An ice machine judged twenty minutes after a reset has been judged on nothing, and that is the commonest reason somebody concludes the reset did not work and calls.

## What it is when it is not a reset

In this city, scale. Hard water leaves deposits on an evaporator plate or in an auger faster than the manufacturer's interval assumes, and a machine that has never been cleaned is working against a coated surface. Twice a year rather than annually is the realistic figure here, and it is a cycle and an hour rather than a repair.

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