Bosch Logixx SGS09L12GB -wont start or program

[cjapeterborough]

Hi

Just acquired this machine with a reported leak problem.

On power up I can only select language and then the screen flashes
"not started" continuously.

The top display is also rather dim and difficult to make out.
I have checked all connections to display panel and also the main control
board in the base.
Have inspected both upper display and lower control boards and there is
no sign of circuit/componant damage

I have cleaned matrix/pressure chamber/front pipe and checked operation
of switches(inc door).The heater is OK and if I activate the flood switch then it pumps
out.

I suspect one of the boards is cream crackered but hope that I am missing something?

What do you think?

Is there any kind of key combination to reset the machine?


Thanks in advance

Chris

 

[Colomartian]

Clearly, this response is too late for cjapeterborough, but I thought an answer might be helpful to some future searcher.

I fought this same "problem" for some time before I discovered you have to push the "Start" button (the green-dot button on my model) while the door is still open. If not, you get the "Not Started" message. I guess that helps avoid having little kids waste a bunch of water and electricity washing an empty DW just because they were groping the buttons on the door.

My displays are also almost hopelessly dim. I have to put a blanket over the system with my head underneath in order to read them during the day! I am fairly well convinced the is a problem of the electrolytic filter capacitors in the power module getting dried out, but I don't have an oscilloscope to check it with, and I haven't tried changing them yet, so I can't say so for sure.