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L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:12 am
by TheoD914
So today I checked my Antminer L3+ and I noticed under the HW column under Antminer under Miner Status it showed a 12 instead of a 0 as it was the last few days.
Anyone know what does that mean? Thanks!
Re: L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:19 am
by mck
These are HW errors, but it is quite normal for an ASIC to have a few of them.
One of my boards gets about 1000 HW errors every hour now, that is a bit much I presume!
Re: L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:43 am
by TraderSP
mck wrote:These are HW errors, but it is quite normal for an ASIC to have a few of them.
One of my boards gets about 1000 HW errors every hour now, that is a bit much I presume!
Mee too. 8000 in 17h.
Re: L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:56 am
by Jakeg5280
TraderSP wrote:mck wrote:These are HW errors, but it is quite normal for an ASIC to have a few of them.
One of my boards gets about 1000 HW errors every hour now, that is a bit much I presume!
Mee too. 8000 in 17h.
What frequency are you running it on?
Re: L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 11:00 am
by TheoD914
im at 384M left it at what it was
Re: L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 11:50 am
by ZiGen
Theo,
Hardware errors are completely normal for ASIC miners. L3+ is build with 4 boards x 72 each = 288 ASIC chips. It is expected that some chips will miscalculate from time to time. The software - cgminer - is checking real quick each chip hash/share checksum to verify that it's valid. If NOT matching - than chip miscalculated this one and bingo ! Hardware Error ! This is how these ASIC miners are build by design.
What is important in HW statistics is NOT absolute number, but PERCENTAGE shown to the right of it. Everything less than 0.5% is ACCEPTABLE ! Mine miners are running within ~0.2% range.
Hope this will help putting your worries to rest.
Regards,
ZiGen
Re: L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 2:16 pm
by TheoD914
Yeah on the last row under Pools HW shows just 17 (it has gone up a few numbers today)
and chain #3 shows 17 under the HW section
just wondering if i did anything wrong but hopefully it will be alright!
Re: L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 2:25 pm
by dog1965
TheoD914 wrote:Yeah on the last row under Pools HW shows just 17 (it has gone up a few numbers today)
and chain #3 shows 17 under the HW section
just wondering if i did anything wrong but hopefully it will be alright!
It will dont worry this is normal. like the guy in the previous post stated.
Re: L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 2:29 pm
by TheoD914
Perfect! Waiting on the next one to come in the mail
Re: L3 HW
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 2:43 pm
by TheoD914
now its at 20, all in one day, ZiGen where can I check the percentage of HW?