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title: "Samsung dishwasher error code 5C"
description: "Samsung dishwasher error code 5C: Standing water in the bottom of the tub and a machine that will not finish."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-drain/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Dishwashers"
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# Samsung dishwasher error code 5C

### What 5C means on this make

Standing water in the bottom of the tub and a machine that will not finish. The order that solves most of them is the filter, then the drain hose and its high loop, then the connection at the disposer or air gap, then the pump — and one item on that list is the single most common cause of a brand new dishwasher that has never drained: the knockout plug in the disposer inlet that the installer did not remove.

### The other ways Samsung prints this one

5C · SC · 5E · SE

Samsung publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with. They mean the same thing and they are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

### Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

### What to do about it

- Take out the filter assembly at the bottom of the tub, clean it and refit it.
- Check the drain hose is not kinked and that it rises into a high loop before it goes down.
- If it drains into a disposer, confirm the knockout plug was removed when it was installed.
- If all of that is right and it still holds water, the drain pump is the repair.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [dishwasher drain repair](/services/dishwasher-drain-repair/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

What this one means

What 5C means on this make

Standing water in the bottom of the tub and a machine that will not finish. The order that solves most of them is the filter, then the drain hose and its high loop, then the connection at the disposer or air gap, then the pump — and one item on that list is the single most common cause of a brand new dishwasher that has never drained: the knockout plug in the disposer inlet that the installer did not remove.

The other ways Samsung prints this one

5C · SC · 5E · SE

Samsung publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with. They mean the same thing and they are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

What to do about it

Take out the filter assembly at the bottom of the tub, clean it and refit it.

Check the drain hose is not kinked and that it rises into a high loop before it goes down.

If it drains into a disposer, confirm the knockout plug was removed when it was installed.

If all of that is right and it still holds water, the drain pump is the repair.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is dishwasher drain repair, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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