Wow, I never heard of ANYBODY, that could state without Diagnosing, that a refer BECAUSE it was a 2002 and beeped was BAD. Now, you may have had a bad cooling unit which required replacing or installing the Samsung. But, if your only source of determining that the refer was BAD was exactly what you stated, then you spent thousands for something you did not need. Did someone come out and diagnosis it was indeed a bad cooling unit? Did you have the dreaded yellow stain at the rear? My point in this post is to make sure someone else does not read it and because his OLD refer beeps, it needs replaced when all it needs is repair. Doug