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title: "Resetting a Viking Refrigerator: Which Button, Which Cabinet, and What It Clears"
description: "A Viking refrigerator reset depends on the cabinet: the maker's own code-clearing sequence on undercounter units, and how to clear CL and filter reminders."
url: "https://vikingmiami.support/blog/viking-refrigerator-reset/"
date_modified: "2026-08-21"
Category: "Troubleshooting"
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# Resetting a Viking Refrigerator: Which Button, Which Cabinet, and What It Clears

## A Viking refrigerator reset is not one sequence, and that is not evasion

This maker's refrigeration runs several different controls across its generations — the undercounter units, the built-in columns, the fully integrated cabinets and the older two-letter controller are four separate things wearing one badge.

Which sequence applies to you is decided by the model number, which is on the upper left interior wall of a column and behind the kickplate on an undercounter unit.

## The one the manufacturer specifically documents

On undercounter refrigeration, refrigerated drawers and wine cellars, the manual says: when a code appears for the first time, **clear it by holding SET and pressing ON/OFF four times**. If the appliance genuinely has a problem, the code comes back.

The reason is printed alongside it — a power line fluctuation can display a code with nothing wrong. On this coast, in a summer of brownouts and afternoon storms, that is a routine event rather than a footnote, and it is the reason a fair share of these calls resolve themselves.

## The indicators that are not errors

| What you see | What it is | How to clear it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **CL** blinking | Clean the condenser coils | Clean them, then arrows up + down, three seconds |
| Power loss shown | The cabinet was off for a long time | Any key — after reading the recorded temperature |
| Filter button blue | Water filter interval reached | Change it; the button goes out |
| Thin blue strip | Bluezone bulb due | Replace, then refrigerator selector held three seconds |
| CHECK COND. | Six-month condenser reminder | Clean, then ENTER held five seconds |

Every one of those is the appliance asking for maintenance rather than reporting a problem, and every one is an owner job with an owner reset.

## Read before you clear

A **power loss indicator** is carrying the only record of how warm the cabinet got while you were out. Read the highest temperature it recorded before pressing anything — it is the difference between a decision about the food and a guess about it.

## What the breaker does and does not do

Five full minutes, genuinely off. It restarts the control, which ends a real share of memory and communication conditions on this equipment.

It does not un-block a condenser, unstick a damper, or make a failing compressor work. A cabinet that was warm before the reset will be warm after it, and that is information rather than a failed reset.

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