Error code
Frigidaire-built Kenmore refrigerator error code DI SP
Frigidaire wrote this code, not Kenmore. On a refrigerator wearing this badge, DI SP means: Frigidaire's own wording: ice is jammed in the chute. An alarm sounds when a cube is detected stuck. Which model prefixes can raise it, and what to
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What we can confirm
Code DI SP, from the manufacturer's own documentation
A code is only meaningful together with the machine showing it — the same digits mean different things on different equipment.
The code
DI SP
Frigidaire's own wording: ice is jammed in the chute. An alarm sounds when a cube is detected stuck.
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What it narrows down to
Frigidaire's own wording: ice is jammed in the chute
What you are probably seeing
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What it looks like from the kitchen
The symptom this code usually arrives with
A code names the subsystem; the symptom is what sent you to look at the display in the first place. That page says what it usually turns out to be, cheapest cause first.
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The bin is empty and nothing is obviously broken Ice maker not making ice
One of the most over-quoted repairs there is. Ice production depends on freezer temperature and on water arriving, and both are cheaper to fix than the ice maker itself — so the sequence matters more here than on almost any other symptom.
- Freezer temperature before the module
- Water supply before the mechanism
- A silted saddle valve is a local classic
On the same appliance
What else belongs to the refrigerators
On this make a code belongs to the appliance rather than to a product line. These are the other conditions this machine can display, and the models that can show this one — a display often has more than one thing to say, and the model number decides what any of it costs to put right.
Other codes this appliance can display
Whirlpool's own wording: the power outage indicator tells you
The alarm sounds when a door or the freezer
Whirlpool's own thresholds: it alerts when the refrigerator rises
Whirlpool's wording: the refrigerator and freezer will not cool
The filter status light telling you the water filter is due
The air filter status, in three stages: blue is
Whirlpool publishes the fact that an F is flashing
A freezer fan problem
A refrigerator fan problem — the same class of
A defrost heater circuit problem
A sealed-system problem — LG's published meaning is a
Sabbath mode
The same digits mean different things on different equipment. Search the full code list
In more detail
About Frigidaire-built Kenmore refrigerator error code DI SP
Whose code this actually is
Kenmore did not write DI SP, because Kenmore has never built an appliance. This one is Frigidaire's, and it appears on the refrigerator that Frigidaire built and Sears sold under the Kenmore badge. Four different manufacturers built refrigerators under this badge, and several of them use an F with a number for unrelated conditions. That is the single most convincing way to reach the wrong component.
What it means
Frigidaire's own wording: ice is jammed in the chute. An alarm sounds when a cube is detected stuck.
Which Kenmore models can raise it
The Kenmore refrigerator whose model number begins 253 — the three digits before the period on the rating plate. Those digits are Frigidaire's, which is why Frigidaire's table is the one that applies to DI SP and no other manufacturer's does.
The other ways it may be written
The same condition is published under more than one label, because it has been carried across generations of the appliance and because a segment display draws some characters oddly: DISP. They are the same finding and they lead to the same place.
Worth trying yourself, in this order
- Clear the chute — a cube that partly melted and refroze is the usual thing.
- An ice maker whose bin never empties will do this repeatedly, and that is a household habit rather than a repair.
Where this usually goes
The job this most often becomes is icemaker repair, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. A Kenmore refrigerator in this humidity hands its defrost circuit more work than it was sized for, and in a Miami kitchen a floor-level condenser blocks well ahead of any published interval. Photograph the display before you cut the power: a reset clears DI SP, and on a Kenmore the characters plus three digits off the plate are most of the diagnosis.
Where this meaning came from
Frigidaire's own documentation: Refrigerator Error Codes and Alarms, Frigidaire owner support. Kenmore publishes none of its own, which is why every entry on this site names the manufacturer's document instead.
This article is based on:
- Official manufacturer documentation
- Internal repair procedures
- Technician repair history
- Company quality standards