It did not work with the sha256 pool on nice hash ( stratum+tcp://sha256.eu-west.nicehash.com:3334). It remained idle.
Then, I switched the pool to binance instead: stratum+tcp://sha256.poolbinance.com:443
Looks like the results are better now (updated log below). I will keep an eye on status and post my results after 1-2 days.
{'STATUS':[{'STATUS':'S','When':1623,'Code':11,'Msg':'Summary','Description':'cgminer 4.11.1'}],'SUMMARY':[{'Elapsed':1549,'MHS av':69423134.90,'MHS 30s':73332634.13,'MHS 1m':71739939.20,'MHS 5m':70111461.00,'MHS 15m':57568184.99,'Found Blocks':0,'Getworks':55,'Accepted':199,'Rejected':0,'Hardware Errors':3,'Utility':7.71,'Discarded':4597357,'Stale':0,'Get Failures':0,'Local Work':24489,'Remote Failures':0,'Network Blocks':3,'Total MH':107664178320.0000,'Work Utility':970844.45,'Difficulty Accepted':26083328.00000000,'Difficulty Rejected':0.00000000,'Difficulty Stale':0.00000000,'Best Share':109270893,'Device Hardware%':0.0000,'Device Rejected%':0.0000,'Pool Rejected%':0.0000,'Pool Stale%':0.0000,'Last getwork':0}
{'STATUS':[{'STATUS':'S','When':1623,'Code':70,'Msg':'CGMiner stats','Description':'cgminer 4.11.1'}],'STATS':[{'STATS':0,'ID':'AVA100','Elapsed':1550,'Calls':0,'Wait':0.000000,'Max':0.000000,'Min':99999999.000000,'MM ID0':'Ver[1246-85-21072802_4ec6bb0_211fc46] DNA[0201000033b8436a] MEMFREE[1661824.0] NETFAIL[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0] SYSTEMSTATU[Work: In Work, Hash Board: 3 ] Elapsed[1550] BOOTBY[0x04.00000000] LW[1544506] MH[1 1 1] HW[3] DH[3.329%] Temp[13] TMax[81] TAvg[65] Fan1[3461] Fan2[3100] Fan3[3494] Fan4[3470] FanR[48%] Vo[335] PS[0 1205 1344 239 3209 1344 3479] PLL0[2862 0 5 11053] PLL1[4129 4 3 9784] PLL2[2402 2 5 11511] GHSspd[70160.41] DHspd[3.278%] GHSmm[72660.81] GHSavg[69446.88] WU[970161.70] Freq[434.99] Led[0] MGHS[23557.47 22451.09 23438.32] MTmax[79 81 81] MTavg[65 65 65] TA[360] Core[A3201] PING[70] POWS[0] HASHS[0 0 0] POOLS[0] SoftOFF[0] ECHU[0 0 0] ECMM[0] SF0[390 408 428 448] SF1[390 408 428 448] SF2[390 408 428 448] PVT_T0[ 63 66 67 71 65 64 65 69 69 69 73 66 66 70 74 71 70 66 66 72 73 79 69 66 65 73 79 74 74 64 64 69 74 74 73 64 65 67 71 74 69 64 62 68 74 73 63 61 62 66 73 72 62 63 59 61 72 67 60 57 53 55 53 55 59 56 60 61 55 59 62 59 56 60 64 70 64 60 63 63 67 71 64 62 63 63 62 61 63 61 62 66 64 69 66 65 64 66 65 67 65 64 64 62 76 67 67 64 61 61 62 61 66 66 65 64 61 70 61 65] PVT_T1[ 64 68 67 65 69 67 67 66 68 69 68 68 67 70 71 79 70 66 64 73 80 80 67 67 64 69 81 78 71 68 67 71 81 79 69 68 68 69 79 79 70 66 63 66 77 77 68 64 64 66 73 63 63 63 63 64 69 63 64 61 58 56 55 53 59 59 58 60 57 56 63 59 57 63 58 59 63 60 62 63 62 62 63 65 67 65 61 59 64 64 64 61 59 63 64 64 64 64 63 59 67 65 63 64 61 58 65 61 60 64 61 60 61 62 59 65 60 59 60 60] PVT_T2[ 65 67 68 68 72 68 66 69 69 72 70 68 68 73 75 73 71 66 67 77 79 79 70 68 65 70 81 72 70 66 63 68 72 80 72 63 67 71 79 75 71 64 64 71 76 77 65 62 60 68 69 66 65 63 63 64 70 69 61 62 57 57 54 57 59 59 62 62 63 64 62 60 63 64 63 68 66 59 62 62 62 58 62 61 64 57 57 57 59 63 65 62 58 66 62 64 64 64 63 63 64 65 63 66 69 64 66 62 64 66 64 66 63 64 67 67 65 62 65 65] PVT_V0[321 326 334 310 315 313 309 307 313 301 302 300 310 313 311 308 310 307 302 304 302 315 313 313 303 296 297 303 302 299 309 309 304 314 311 311 300 302 302 299 300 303 311 311 314 304 306 308 322 325 330 307 313 318 319 320 325 318 322 327 319 318 314 319 317 323 312 319 317 326 323 323 321 319 317 310 310 309 309 313 314 311 317 319 313 313 315 313 312 312 309 307 306 319 319 319 309 311 309 304 306 307 317 319 318 319 322 317 316 315 318 322 315 317 333 332 329 313 315 319] PVT_V1[325 327 331 308 309 307 317 316 317 307 306 309 310 310 309 307 309 309 303 304 305 295 298 297 304 303 301 299 303 301 316 317 322 306 303 302 314 315 305 302 299 298 303 304 301 314 307 307 308 314 306 319 316 319 305 306 303 309 315 317 338 334 331 319 322 321 327 331 337 314 317 315 310 305 311 311 310 315 315 319 319 330 325 322 317 317 315 325 322 325 317 315 315 313 312 311 317 315 322 310 308 309 310 311 312 314 314 314 313 316 314 321 321 321 319 321 323 315 318 322] PVT_V2[320 321 323 311 311 311 311 311 314 309 310 314 306 307 306 319 311 308 309 309 304 304 309 306 302 303 303 305 304 307 314 315 315 303 305 303 311 306 302 318 311 314 314 312 317 309 316 317 322 323 325 323 327 325 315 317 319 308 317 323 336 330 326 336 332 327 340 337 330 324 323 318 318 317 317 303 307 310 311 311 313 309 306 309 313 310 307 310 307 305 321 323 319 309 312 313 309 304 305 306 304 305 307 308 310 303 304 307 313 307 310 305 307 309 314 318 319 306 305 311] MW[514959 515019 515059] MW0[37 40 21 30 35 43 30 39 40 38 39 38 30 31 42 33 31 40 24 29 41 31 39 33 34 37 13 27 38 32 31 30 28 47 42 33 22 37 22 19 35 31 29 34 38 31 38 35 37 35 26 30 28 46 40 42 35 42 32 31 39 45 35 40 25 34 37 35 51 37 19 38 36 27 37 24 40 27 38 43 22 39 32 40 40 39 30 27 38 42 39 41 33 34 26 48 34 37 43 40 46 32 30 39 34 25 43 24 33 32 41 26 38 37 34 50 35 33 37 35] MW1[47 34 43 31 31 27 25 33 35 33 32 34 32 36 30 18 28 27 20 38 17 17 38 13 44 36 31 25 36 32 51 24 40 31 38 27 38 34 33 29 31 26 32 35 37 26 43 19 32 40 38 33 39 27 42 23 23 30 38 31 38 41 36 31 41 30 43 35 37 31 30 36 37 24 37 32 28 28 25 35 34 36 36 31 34 29 35 24 32 30 38 32 24 29 33 41 32 34 37 36 32 38 26 38 34 40 37 48 43 30 31 31 38 38 32 29 33 39 38 37] MW2[41 32 34 28 34 37 36 23 30 35 50 37 34 28 34 30 30 29 31 40 30 37 31 28 26 35 33 34 34 39 37 38 37 41 37 23 43 27 34 26 27 26 30 42 45 39 38 30 33 29 46 35 30 24 41 33 35 40 43 38 45 41 42 33 34 27 35 29 36 25 37 43 35 34 42 33 36 38 36 28 35 28 26 46 42 43 27 38 32 30 40 40 44 31 36 20 30 25 24 36 42 36 28 35 41 43 34 38 45 36 30 39 35 32 31 37 25 40 24 31] ASICCRC0[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0] ASICCRC1[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0] ASICCRC2[0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0] CRC[0 0 0] POW_I2C[OK] FACOPTS0[] FACOPTS1[] ATAOPTS0[--avalon10-freq 390:408:428:448 --avalon10-voltage-level 32 ] ATAOPTS1[--avalon10-freq 390:408:428:448 --avalon10-voltage-level 61 ] ADJ[1] COP[0 0 0] MPO[3200] MVL[87] ATABD0[390 408 428 448] ATABD1[390 408 428 448] ATABD2[390 408 428 448] WORKMODE[1]','MM Count':1,'Smart Speed':1,'Voltage Level Offset':0,'Nonce Mask':25}