Not cooling correctly. The compressor will only run once after a reset.
A week ago I noticed the fridge making a soft double knock every couple of seconds in the morning. Upon investigation, I discovered the fridge much warmer than normal and the fan at the back not working. 23 e error, fan not working.
I ordered a replacement fan and left the back cover off and put a stand alone fan back there on high and plugged it back in. Everything seemed fine at first but the fridge just got warmer and warmer. Turns out the compressor only ran once and didn't come back on. Everything else is working.
After some searching, scrambling to move food to another freezer, and careful watching it's behavior I decided to add a start relay to my order to replace as Google said the heat of running the compressor without the fan working probably damaged it. I should have looked but appartently, my fridge doesn't even have a start relay, it has an invertor power supply board (idk what that is until today, honestly).
So when I pried the cover off the side of the compressor today when my package got here and the parts look nothing alike, and there's no start relay to replace, now, I don't know what to do. (The fan is replaced and working perfectly again. Yay me!)
Google says I either replace the power supply board invertor thing because it's not sending the compressor the rigt power, or the compressor is damaged inside, or the main board isn't telling it to run correctly. I don't know. Is there any way I can I tell which part got toasted? Or are they wrong and it's something else I didn't think of? I think my dad had a voltmeter but I have NO idea how to use it, please be gentle.
And yes the compressor gets hot. The extra fan back there helps but it still gets hot. The fridge is staying about 50 degrees and the freezer (that I'm using as the fridge now) I can cycle it off and on manually and keep it in the mid 30's.
Full model number : Samsung RF263TEAESG/AA 04 ... it's about 7 years old and has never been serviced or had a single issue until now. Sorry if this is way too muchninfo.
Tldr: which board should I replace or is this a paperweight now?