A few years ago we bought a small chest type freezer to keep in the garage for all the "extras" that didn't fit into the top of our regular freezer.  The freezer worked great for about 3 years then we started hearing a beeping sound and upon opening the door a light was flashing.  We called the repair people at the place we bought it and they simply said it sounded like the freezer was about to go out and that we needed to replace it.  There was a "reset" button which we did use, but the beeping / light continued to come back on.  After a few days of this we did go ahead and replace it because the last thing we needed was for it to go out while we were out of town several days, and come back to find all of our freezer items ruined.

Well I just saw a post over at ShopperStrategy  entitled "Freezer Don't Fail Me Now"  talking about this very problem.  It appears that after much research and no thanks to the Sears repairmen, Denise discovered that there was a battery that controlled the beeping / flashing light that had gone bad.  Boy howdy!  Now I'm MAD -- and I am convinced that we should not have had to replace our freezer!  I showed my husband that post and he said he never knew that freezers had a battery to operate anything.

Hop on over to ShopperStrategy  and see for yourself how the battery works, where it is and what to check for.  Thank you Denise for the couple weeks of research and no thanks to the Sears repair people who actually got all this worked out!  You might want to pass the information along to your friends and family who might just be having similar problems with their freezer and the problem could be solved very easily and MUCH cheaper than buying a new freezer!!