---
title: "Samsung dishwasher error code PE"
description: "Samsung dishwasher error code PE: Half load washes only one rack, which needs the same diverter mechanism that Zone Wash uses."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/dishwasher-half-load/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Dishwashers"
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# Samsung dishwasher error code PE

### What PE means on this make

Half load washes only one rack, which needs the same diverter mechanism that Zone Wash uses. As with Zone Wash, the useful diagnostic is whether ordinary cycles run normally — if they do, the machine is healthy and one feature is not.

### 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

- Empty the machine, add detergent and run a half-load cycle to confirm it repeats.
- Run a full normal cycle and see whether that is clean.
- If only the half-load reports, the diverter is the repair; cut power at the breaker if you are leaving it.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [dishwasher wash performance service](/services/dishwasher-wash-performance-service/), 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.

Half load function error

What this one means

What PE means on this make

Half load washes only one rack, which needs the same diverter mechanism that Zone Wash uses. As with Zone Wash, the useful diagnostic is whether ordinary cycles run normally — if they do, the machine is healthy and one feature is not.

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

Empty the machine, add detergent and run a half-load cycle to confirm it repeats.

Run a full normal cycle and see whether that is clean.

If only the half-load reports, the diverter is the repair; cut power at the breaker if you are leaving it.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is dishwasher wash performance service, 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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