# No GPU (nvidia-smi failed)

**URL:** <https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/no-gpu-nvidia-smi-failed/4161>\
**Category:** Technical Help\
**Created:** [March 27, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/no-gpu-nvidia-smi-failed/4161 "2024-03-27T08:20:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![kresimir58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kresimir58](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/kresimir58)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/no-gpu-nvidia-smi-failed/4161/1 "2024-03-27T08:20:55Z")

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Hi, i’ve been sucessfully using 1xH100 instances in the last few days, and every day i would launch/terminate instance.  
Today i have a problem, it seems that no gpu is detected on system:  
nvidia-smi  
**NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.**

I tried:  
apt update && apt install  
separately:  
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-545 (doesn’t work)  
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-535 (doesn’t work)

rebooting in between steps as well  
nothing helped

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**Author:** ![stevenic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@stevenic](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/stevenic)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/no-gpu-nvidia-smi-failed/4161/2 "2024-04-30T19:01:47Z")

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Did you ever get a resolution to this? I can’t get `nvidia-smi` to find any GPU’s on an H100 instance

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**Author:** ![marek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@marek](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/marek)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/no-gpu-nvidia-smi-failed/4161/3 "2024-07-08T13:51:03Z")

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Having the same issue here on my Tensorbook

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**Author:** ![kresimir58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kresimir58](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/kresimir58)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 9:40am UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/no-gpu-nvidia-smi-failed/4161/4 "2024-07-11T09:40:36Z")

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i contacted customer service and they asked me to run additional commands and send logs to them. but, when i started new instance, problem dissapeared. so i guess there was intermittent issue or issue with just that instance i got.