Blue light blinking, tank full, water not heating up

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You need to prime the machine with water. Fill the water tank. Plug the machine in and turn the power on. Instructions state the lights will flash, but they won't. Blue water drop will illuminate indicating the machine is empty (the water tank is full, but the pipes in the machine are empty until you do the following). Place a cup under the steam wand, and rotate the steam knob fully to the "on" position (fully clockwise as you view it from the side until you hit the hard stop). No need to use force, just rotate until you hear the pump turn on. At this point, you'll hear a pump running, and after 10-30 seconds, water will be ejected from the wand. Continue until the blue light goes out and you're ready to brew. At this point, I think the lights flash and it comes up to temp. One more thing, when using the steam wand, always turn the knob until the pump engages, or you run the risk of emptying the water line. Hope this helps and enjoy!

Solution #1 is correct. But I'd like to further add that at least on mine, the blue light continued to stay on. It needs to go off before the machine can start heating. I turned the machine off and on and that didn't help. Finally, I just assumed it needed to know that there was water in the tank, so I took the water tank back out, placed it back in, turned it on and voila...heating!

So for everyone having this problem (and apparently there are alot posting this question right now), let's review the steps:

1. Fill water tank.
2. Turn machine on.
3. Blue water light will blink.
4. Get a cup and put below steam knob.
5. Turn steam knob fully on (clockwise)
6. You will hear a machine noise, keep going...
7. Fill the cup with about 4 oz of water. I kept filling the cup until the water stopped coming out and the noise stopped.
8. Turn the steam knob back.
9. At this point, the blue light on mine stayed on, maybe it will turn off on yours? If not, turn machine off.
10. Pull out water tank and then replace.
11. Turn machine back. The blue light should be off now and the single and double orange lights should be on. Now it should heat up.

I must say that Saeco's directions are a little fuzzy and good luck calling this weekend (Thanksgiving), they are closed.

Now on to making some espresso...

I have the same problem i clean up my espresso machine and then when i try to clean it with clean water all of the lights start blinking including the water sign.What i did is turn it off for atlist 1hour or untill it cools off unplug it then make it sure the water is not hot and not too full.

Return under warranty

The water tank may just be a little "uneven" in back. Tap it a little and jiggle it_ see if it goes off then.