Hi. I have a wine cooler, and when the power went out and back on, it won’t turn on. It just beeps. I was able to find a fix for this, which is to u plug the live wire and leave only the ground wire in, and then turn the unit back on temporarily. Take this loosely as I’m in no way an electrician, but I guess it reboots the circuit board somehow … or something along those lines.

Of course, on my model, these wires are joined together as one (versus them being 2 separate wires in other models. See green circle in photos), so I can’t simply unplug the ground. Both live and ground unplug as one.

My question is, is it safe for me to unjoin these two wires so I have 1 separate live and 1 separate ground, and then put a new “head” on the ground wire to plug it in to the blue circled piece in the photos, and turn the unit back on? Afterwards I’d reattach them as they originally were and plug both live and ground back in. I’m just trying to “reboot” the system

I have experience with stripping, crimping, and soldering wires (eg I have managed to hardwire car audio systems and dash cams) but I’m unsure how to approach this one safely. Is what I want to do safe? Is there a reason the live and ground are conjoined like this beyond just a preference?