--- title: "Range hood will not turn on" description: "Samsung range hood will not turn on: a hood is a simple machine — a motor, a blower, a light and a control — so there is not much in" url: "https://samsungmiami.support/symptoms/range-hood-will-not-turn-on/" date_modified: "2026-09-04" Appliance type: "Range hoods" --- # Samsung range hood will not turn on ### Check the pairing before the hardware Samsung hoods can pair with a Samsung range or cooktop so the fan starts when cooking does. Losing that pairing makes a perfectly healthy hood look broken, and Samsung publishes the procedure to restore it. It is worth trying before anybody opens a cabinet. ### What it usually means, by the kind of Samsung appliance Samsung sells one appliance in several forms, and the same behavior points at different things on each of them. A built-in side-by-side and an integrated column are not the same service situation, and a dual-fuel range and an induction range fail in different halves. - **Wall mount and under cabinet** — Supply, switch, control, blower. In that order. - **Hoods paired with a Samsung cooktop** — Auto-connect can be lost by a power cut, a firmware update or a network change, and the hood then stops responding to the cooktop. - **Over-the-range microwave** — If the microwave works and the fan does not, it is the fan circuit rather than the supply. ### Look above the appliance first Range hoods are wired during construction and are frequently on a switch that made sense at the time. Kitchens get remodeled, switches get relabeled, and circuits get rearranged. A hood that has stopped working the week after electrical work in the house is almost never a hood problem. ### Pairing is now part of the diagnosis Auto-connect between a Samsung hood and a Samsung cooktop is a genuinely useful feature and a new way for a healthy appliance to look broken. Because the hood is meant to respond to the cooktop, an owner can reasonably conclude it is dead when it has simply forgotten what it is listening to. We check it before we check anything mechanical. Power at the appliance Often a switched circuit shared with kitchen lighting, changed at some point since the hood was fitted. Lost pairing Samsung-specific, no hardware involved, and Samsung publishes the procedure. The control panel Capacitive panels above a cooktop take steam and grease for years. The blower motor Last, because it is the least likely of the four. Find the switch that feeds it Often on the wall with the kitchen lights rather than at the hood. Try the light and the fan separately One working and not the other is the control, not the supply. Try the pairing procedure If the hood is meant to respond to the cooktop and no longer does. Check the breaker And what else is on it. No fan, no light, no response What it usually means Hoods are often on a switched circuit that has since been changed A Samsung hood can lose its pairing with the cooktop and look dead Very little inside, so most of these repairs are worth doing Check the pairing before the hardware Samsung hoods can pair with a Samsung range or cooktop so the fan starts when cooking does. Losing that pairing makes a perfectly healthy hood look broken, and Samsung publishes the procedure to restore it. It is worth trying before anybody opens a cabinet. What it usually means, by the kind of Samsung appliance Samsung sells one appliance in several forms, and the same behavior points at different things on each of them. A built-in side-by-side and an integrated column are not the same service situation, and a dual-fuel range and an induction range fail in different halves. Wall mount and under cabinet — Supply, switch, control, blower. In that order. Hoods paired with a Samsung cooktop — Auto-connect can be lost by a power cut, a firmware update or a network change, and the hood then stops responding to the cooktop. Over-the-range microwave — If the microwave works and the fan does not, it is the fan circuit rather than the supply. Look above the appliance first Range hoods are wired during construction and are frequently on a switch that made sense at the time. Kitchens get remodeled, switches get relabeled, and circuits get rearranged. A hood that has stopped working the week after electrical work in the house is almost never a hood problem. Pairing is now part of the diagnosis Auto-connect between a Samsung hood and a Samsung cooktop is a genuinely useful feature and a new way for a healthy appliance to look broken. Because the hood is meant to respond to the cooktop, an owner can reasonably conclude it is dead when it has simply forgotten what it is listening to. We check it before we check anything mechanical. ### The light works but the fan does not. Then the supply is fine and it is the fan side — the control, the motor or its capacitor. That is a much better position to be in, and it is usually repairable. ### It stopped after a power cut. Very likely the pairing, if it is meant to work with your cooktop. Worth trying the procedure before assuming damage. --- **[Read full article: Range hood will not turn on](https://samsungmiami.support/symptoms/range-hood-will-not-turn-on/)**