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L3 HW

TheoD914
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Joined: Oct 04, 2017

L3 HW

by TheoD914 · · Post #10504

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!
mck
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Joined: Dec 10, 2016

Re: L3 HW

by mck · · Post #10505

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!
TraderSP
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Joined: Oct 03, 2017

Re: L3 HW

by TraderSP · · Post #10507

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.
Jakeg5280
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Joined: Sep 24, 2017

Re: L3 HW

by Jakeg5280 · · Post #10508

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?
ZiGen
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Joined: Oct 04, 2017

Re: L3 HW

by ZiGen · · Post #10510

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
TheoD914
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Joined: Oct 04, 2017

Re: L3 HW

by TheoD914 · · Post #10520

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!
dog1965
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Joined: Sep 03, 2017

Re: L3 HW

by dog1965 · · Post #10521

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.