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Topic: BFL Monarch - Strange Errors in BFGMiner (Read 1082 times)

legendary
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October 14, 2015, 01:43:21 PM
#6
I fixed this by upgrading to cgminer 4.9.2, it started a little rough but not longer after letting it run it just started running super smooth. I then restarted the software a few times to see if it was a fluke but it seems to be consistent. I then moved it to a whole other machine and ran the above version of cgminer and it worked and best of all it is actually performing much better than it's even designed to run at. It should be pushing around 700 gh/s and I am getting closer to 800 gh/s as it seems to bounce around 780-790~ or so.

One last note: I switched to antpool from slush, I dunno if this is a factor in it or not.

Its relatively normal, depending on which CGMiner version i'd use i'd get different hashrate too, but poolside, nearly no difference.

For pools, i'd recommend http://www.kano.is/index.php the payouts are much less steady but its less fee and better payouts into accounts of several factors, such as optimized pool code.

Thats the one i use but i think the most important point i'd like to advocate is pointing hashrate away from China. They centralized enough hashrate as it is already, imo.
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October 14, 2015, 12:47:13 AM
#5
I fixed this by upgrading to cgminer 4.9.2, it started a little rough but not longer after letting it run it just started running super smooth. I then restarted the software a few times to see if it was a fluke but it seems to be consistent. I then moved it to a whole other machine and ran the above version of cgminer and it worked and best of all it is actually performing much better than it's even designed to run at. It should be pushing around 700 gh/s and I am getting closer to 800 gh/s as it seems to bounce around 780-790~ or so.

One last note: I switched to antpool from slush, I dunno if this is a factor in it or not.
legendary
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October 03, 2015, 06:18:36 AM
#4
Ok so... who wants a monarch? LMAO J/K

I was going to fiddle with it and make a hybrid / bitcoin mining server for fun... Too bad it sucks so bad. So I assume this thing is just broken then?

Well i don't know? Its working on the pic you posted, its just throwing a fair bit of errors, but your overall hardware error seem to be at 1.9%. Considering the dubious quality of butterfly lab's stuff, i'd just go ahead and check on the pool side what your hashrate is.

There's quite a lot of troubleshooting content for the machine and you did not mention much of any details about the miner's reporting led so. If you don't have the time to go through pages and pages to troubleshoot it, just check if the pool is receiving the submitted shares properly.

Regardless its a pretty inefficient miner so i hope you have near free electricity!
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October 03, 2015, 01:35:21 AM
#3
Ok so... who wants a monarch? LMAO J/K

I was going to fiddle with it and make a hybrid / bitcoin mining server for fun... Too bad it sucks so bad. So I assume this thing is just broken then?
legendary
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October 01, 2015, 11:24:35 AM
#2
Yes, several thread discuss issues with the BFL monarch. Personally i just gave up and am now keeping off from any further involvement with BFL stuff. They have no good hardware in existence anymore in any case.

Anyways;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=759398.40
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October 01, 2015, 12:46:29 AM
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So I just happened to come across a Monarch... I hooked it up and wired it to a nice 1,200 W PSU. I then proceeded to fire up BFGMINER and I keep getting these strange error messages:



Does anyone know what the hell that is about?

Thank You!
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