Microwave Cannot Start

It's dead. Time for a new one.

Jay -

Recc. you chuck it; 14 years is an adequate life for a microwave. If you want to keep it, I advise you take it to a service center for repair.... given the cost of new, it wouldn't make financial sense to repair it, however unless you are familiar with the operation of high voltage power supplies, and how to deal with them, playing around with the guts and/or replacing parts would not be a wise idea.

Before throwing it out, I think I'd check the interlock switch for the door, and make sure it's working properly. You might have a bit of food caught in there that's preventing the switch from closing. or perhaps the switch has failed.

Consider this a gift from God and an opportunity to buy a new one. It will cost less, take up less counter top, quieter larger inside and work better than your old one.

You can probably get it serviced for $150 but . . . . . For $75 you can buy one with twice the power and twice the features.

Whatever is wrong it will cost more than buying a new, in fact, just finding out what is wrong will cost more than many small one. Our first Sharp cost over $500, and our next Sharp (at least 4 years old) cost $125-150. Throw yours in the garbage and get a new. You might want to save the turn around plate and give one of the charities that has stores for used stuff.

Thanks everyone who has responded.

Seem like the only sensible thing that I should do is to get rid of it. Luckily, a new one on ly costs $50, and I only use it for simple things like reheating soup.

I was hoping that I can fix it by doing some simple things like moving the microwave to face south, hitting the button three times...etc I guess this is not that simple.

Jay Chan