--- title: "Viking error codes: and the ones that are not codes at all." description: "Viking error codes decoded in all ten vocabularies this make uses — and the appliances that publish none, including the dishwasher." url: "https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes/" date_modified: "2026-08-21" --- # Error codes archive ## Viking error codes: and the ones that are not codes at all. Type what you can see and the list filters to it — an F with a letter after it, an E-number, a word like RTD ERROR, or a count of flashes. Every one of these was read inside a code table in this maker's own Use and Care manuals, and the manual is named on the page. Where the manufacturer publishes a condition without publishing its meaning, the page says so rather than filling the gap. 84 — conditions, each with its own page 11 — different ways this make says it 68 — you can act on yourself from $95 — diagnostic, credited to the repair ## Search the whole archive Type whatever is in front of you. Spaces and capitals do not matter, and neither does knowing what kind of thing it is — FA, E1, 2-2, CL, RTD ERROR and "Lower too warm" are all in here, and so is "one flash then five". 84 conditions in 11 alphabets, every one of them read out of a manufacturer manual and cited on its page. If yours is not here, that does not make it invalid — some are shown only in service mode and some belong to one model year. Call [(305) 697-3843](tel:+13056973843) with the model number and exactly what the appliance is showing. ## A Viking dishwasher does not have error codes. It has two lights. **Pots/Pans** flashes a count, **Normal Wash** flashes a count, and the pair is the message — one then five is a drain problem, two then two is a fill problem. Machines built before 26 May 2010 do not even do that: they mark an **X** under a row of cycle lights, and the pattern of X marks is the code. The date on the serial plate decides which table applies. This matters because a good deal of what is published elsewhere about this appliance is invented. There is no “error code 15” on a Viking dishwasher. There is no number at all. Counting the two lights before the machine is switched off is the whole diagnosis, and it is free. ## Four things worth having in front of you Codes clear themselves and flash counts cannot be recovered afterwards. These take a minute and they are usually the difference between one appointment and two. Capture it while it is there - Photograph the display, or film the lights — a count of flashes is gone the moment anything is switched off, and nobody can reconstruct it later - Take the model number from the plate: behind the kickplate on a range or an undercounter unit, inside the door frame on an oven or a dishwasher, on the upper left interior wall on a column Then try the free thing - Five minutes genuinely off at the breaker, not standby — on this make it ends a real share of the board conditions - Note whether it came back, because a condition that survives a proper power cycle is a condition that means something ## E2 is a condenser fan on one machine and an overheated cooktop on another. This make bought and built its controls in different decades and on different continents, so a token is only half of an answer. **E1** is a compressor on an undercounter refrigerator and nothing at all on a cooktop. **EE** is a controller memory failure on an older beverage center and a technical error on a steam oven. Every page here names the machine as well as the token, which is why there are eighty-four of them and not sixty. Tell us the model number and exactly what the appliance is showing, and we will tell you which one you have. **Call [(305) 697-3843](tel:+13056973843)**, or describe it in the form above. ## Start from the symptom instead If nothing is on the display — and on the grills and ice machines there never is — start from what the appliance is actually doing. Each of these covers the likely causes cheapest first, and what is worth checking yourself. ## What people ask us about Viking codes Is there a Viking error code list I can download? — Not one list, no — and that is the honest answer rather than a dodge. This manufacturer publishes its codes inside the Use and Care manual for each appliance, and different appliances use completely different systems. The archive here is compiled from those manuals so all of them can be searched at once, with the machine named on every page and the manual cited. We do not reproduce the manufacturer's wording or its repair procedures. My dishwasher is flashing. What is the code? — There is no code. Count the flashes on the Pots/Pans light and then the flashes on Normal Wash, and read them as a pair: one and five is a drain problem, two and two is a fill problem, both lights flashing continuously is water in the base pan. On machines built before May 2010 there are no counts either — an X appears under a row of cycle lights instead. Anything you find online offering a numbered Viking dishwasher code is making it up. The knobs on my range have gone red. Is that a code? — It is. On the current 7 Series the knob backlight is the display: it turns red and the griddle or oven ring flashes a count for each condition. The manufacturer publishes the behavior and does not publish the counts, so nobody can honestly decode the number for you — including us. Count the flashes and photograph it before switching anything off, because that count is the only evidence that exists. Why does the same code mean two things? — Because the boards come from different makers and different decades. E2 is a condenser fan motor on an undercounter refrigerator and an overheated cooktop on the integrated downdraft top; E1 is a compressor on a single-zone drawer and the lower compartment sensor on some two-zone wine cellars. The model number settles it, which is why every page here carries the machine and not only the token. Do you cover the grills and the ice machines? — Both, and neither appears in this archive because this maker publishes no code for either one. That is its silence rather than our omission. Grills and ice machines are diagnosed from what they are doing, and the symptom pages carry that instead — including the one the manufacturer names itself, which is surface rust on stainless in an extremely salty environment. On this coast that is not bad luck, it is the address. ## Photograph it, then tell us the model number. Those two things are usually enough for us to say what is likely, what it involves, and what it should cost before anybody comes out. --- **[Read full article: Error codes archive](https://vikingmiami.support/error-codes-archive/)**