Café wall oven
showing LOC
LOC on a Café wall oven means Control Lockout is active.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Café
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What LOC
actually means.
LOC on a Café wall oven means Control Lockout is active. The keypad ignores presses so the oven cannot be turned on by accident.
Café oven display · also shown as Loc
What to do when LOC shows on the ovenKind of codeMode, not a failure
A setting someone switched on, or a state the oven entered on purpose — a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a showroom mode that lights the display without heating. No part has broken and nothing has to be replaced.
Usually leads toNo repair
Turn lockout off using the steps in your owner's manual.
Shows up asOven Control Panel Not Responding
The touch controls or buttons do nothing, the display is blank, or some keys work and others do not.
MakeCafé
A GE Appliances line with customizable hardware finishes, known for its French-door single wall ovens.
SourceGE Appliances support: Range & Wall Oven error codes
Café wall ovens with Control Lockout; the method to turn it off varies by model.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Café's own guidance for LOC on its ovens. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Turn lockout off using the steps in your owner's manual.
Try the keypad again once LOC clears.
Cleared?
The oven came through without a new part. If the same message returns during a later bake, or the oven stops heating partway through, book it as a fresh problem.
What not to do
LOC is not LOC DOOR; the lockout concerns the keypad, not the latch.
What you may
notice with it.
The oven problems LOC tends to arrive with. Answer these at the oven before anyone is booked.
All problems
Oven Control Panel Not Responding
5 causes, cheapest first
No repair indicated
Nothing to repair.
A setting someone switched on, or a state the oven entered on purpose — a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a showroom mode that lights the display without heating. No part has broken and nothing has to be replaced.
Café
ovens.
A GE Appliances line with customizable hardware finishes, known for its French-door single wall ovens.
Café oven repairMore Café codes
Mode, not a failure on other makes
Single wall oven
One oven cavity set into a cabinet at chest height, with its own controls above the door and nothing to cook on above it.
Double wall oven
Two full oven cavities stacked in one tall cabinet, sharing one control panel and one power supply but heating on their own.
Speed oven
A compact built-in oven that combines convection heat with microwave energy in one cavity to cook in a fraction of the usual time.
In Café's own words
Child Lockout is a feature on many wall oven, free-standing range and slide-in range models that prevents the oven from being turned on accidentally.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Café wall ovens with Control Lockout; the method to turn it off varies by model.
Café LOC oven repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about LOC.
Can I clear LOC myself?
My Café keypad does nothing and shows LOC. Is it broken?
Can a power cut clear LOC on my Café?
Back to your everyday
Still showing LOC?
Book with the code exactly as shown, the full model number, and whether you can smell gas or burning — with a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.