<p>I have 3 R9 280x sapphires I use with sgminer</p>

<p>On almost every single pool, with or without --no-submit-stale, after about 5 min of hashing, my worker get's banned and hashing drops to zero. If I lower the intensity, I barely get 500mh/s if that. If I set it to 13, it runs normal, but I get banned?</p>

<pre><code>sgminer -o stratum+tcp://neo.cryptcoins.net:3331 -u user.worker -p x -I 13 -D -P --no-submit-stale
</code></pre>

<p>How can I prevent from getting banned with a decent hash rate?</p>

<pre><code>[18:58:33] RECVD: , "Worker is temporarily banned", null], "id": 666, "result":
</code></pre>

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2014-02-21T06:37:34.567Z
Here's a mention of banning I found looking through the stratum-miner source code. `Excessive sending of invalid shares or shares above indicated target (see Stratum mining docs for set_target()) may lead to temporary or permanent ban of user,worker or IP address.`. Maybe your config settings are wrong?
John T
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2014-02-21T13:04:05.483Z
@Jacob Torba That sounds correct. But I have no idea where to begin looking. sgminer doesn't have a .conf  :(
dooode
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2014-02-21T19:29:27.750Z
Look for error messages in output?
John T
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2014-02-22T13:13:42.210Z
@Jacob Torba  Just this, and nothing else, in any log file.  [18:58:33] RECVD: , "Worker is temporarily banned", null], "id": 666, "result":
null}
JSON decode failed(1): end of file expected near ','
dooode
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2014-03-23T07:56:29.833Z
@dooode Post your issue here - https://github.com/veox/sgminer/issues?milestone=2&state=open
gotqn
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2014-03-27T08:04:25.483Z
@Jacob Torba I posted there and they blamed the pool. I have since built a second miner using non sapphire r9 290 and on a different ASUS board but exact same settings and they don't get banned and I crank them up. It's got to be a hardware or driver conflict, but I see nothing in the logs.
dooode
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worker keeps getting temp banned with sgminer
dooode
# worker keeps getting temp banned with sgminer

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-02-21)

I have 3 R9 280x sapphires I use with sgminer

On almost every single pool, with or without --no-submit-stale, after about 5 min of hashing, my worker get's banned and hashing drops to zero. If I lower the intensity, I barely get 500mh/s if that. If I set it to 13, it runs normal, but I get banned?

```
sgminer -o stratum+tcp://neo.cryptcoins.net:3331 -u user.worker -p x -I 13 -D -P --no-submit-stale

```

How can I prevent from getting banned with a decent hash rate?

```
[18:58:33] RECVD: , "Worker is temporarily banned", null], "id": 666, "result":

```

**Tags:** bitcoind, cgminer

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Here's a mention of banning I found looking through the stratum-miner source code. `Excessive sending of invalid shares or shares above indicated target (see Stratum mining docs for set_target()) may lead to temporary or permanent ban of user,worker or IP address.`. Maybe your config settings are wrong?  
> **username_0**: @Jacob Torba That sounds correct. But I have no idea where to begin looking. sgminer doesn't have a .conf  :(  
> **username_1**: Look for error messages in output?  
> **username_0**: @Jacob Torba  Just this, and nothing else, in any log file.  [18:58:33] RECVD: , "Worker is temporarily banned", null], "id": 666, "result": null} JSON decode failed(1): end of file expected near ','  
> **username_2**: @username_0 Post your issue here - https://github.com/veox/sgminer/issues?milestone=2&state=open  
> **username_0**: @Jacob Torba I posted there and they blamed the pool. I have since built a second miner using non sapphire r9 290 and on a different ASUS board but exact same settings and they don't get banned and I crank them up. It's got to be a hardware or driver conflict, but I see nothing in the logs.  

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