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nvidia-smi -pm 1 was deprecated several years ago. The preferred way is to use nvidia-persistenced. I have it in a bash script that runs at array startup.

Looking at these pics is a time machine flashback. Think your flux capacitor looks a bit dusty. 😆

Assuming one uses Connect. Which many chose not to do. It's nice that Limetech is attempting to make many enhancements to Unraid, but I fear that they have taken on more than they can handle. The change in their licensing schema has them now supporting several paths of 7.x versions of Unraid. Unraid 8.0 will be a monumental change, one which they don't seem to have the resources to regression test nor user acceptance testing to perform. This will become even more an issue with all of the community provided add-ons, which is one of Unraid's biggest features. Using this breaking change as an example, for whatever reason they decided to change the output of one of their functions which in turn caused the issue with this plugin. Developers generally follow the rule where you don't mess with the format of the input or output of a function - everything you do inside the function is fair game to mess with. Not LT - Not our code, not our problem. Let's see how many community devs decide to rework their code with the rollout of Unraid 8.0. We are already seeing some either abandoning their projects and/or moving on to other platforms. I have to say, it is a bit concerning to me... @tiffanyj @SpencerJ

I had a similar issue a few years back. See my post, and the solution ich777's provided in the post that follows it:

First, I am relieved that your absence this past month was by choice and not due to some less pleasant reason. It was noted by me, and was concerning. I do wish to thank you for all of the help you have provided me over the years. From the time I built my first Unraid system 5 years ago until now, you have been a wonderful resource for me and countless others. You have always impressed me with your willingness to assist answering questions and solving problems, always in a friendly, patient and calm manner. You will be missed, both by me as well as many others from the Unraid community. I am happy you have new projects to enjoy and learn from. Best wishes to you on the road ahead. Drop in occasionally and say hello.

You would be better off asking in the General Support subforum. https://forums.unraid.net/forum/55-general-support/

@ich777 - Good to see you. Hope the time away was for a restful and enjoyable holiday.

@dorgan - Just got around to updating this plugin. Been running it for years, and it has always worked for me without any issues. OMG! This rewrite definitely brings it to the next level! It looks fantastic. All of the info one could possibly want, all in one place (two, if you have the dashboard widget installed as well as the tab). And it all looks great. Thanks for your work on this.

Yes. There are a number of them on eBay that can save you some $$$. Open box and even used are pretty low risk, especially if you buy from a high(er) volume seller. Many times these are cards included with systems to business clients that were immediately upgraded, and even used cards were normally lightly used, as no one is mining crypto with these.

My opinion is the Nvidia RTX A400 is the best value for transcoding video for a typical home video server. New is as low as $200 USD, used and open-box easily found for less. Single slot, 50W max power and gets all of its power from the PCIe slot (no extra power cable). I replaced the Quadro P400 in my server not long ago with the RTX A400, as Nvidia is no longer supporting the Pascal based cards in their drivers. This eventually trickles down to applications as well, when a product has reached End Of Life. There is the Quadro T400 that was released between the P400 and A400, but it won't be too long before that is EOL as well. The pricing between the T400 and A400 (comparing 4GB cards) are about the same, so the RTX A400 is the best value.

What I know is I fought with my APC UPS to reset it when connected to my Unraid server. Connected it to a Windows laptop, used their app, no more problems. I didn't get into the "why?".

Connect it temporarily to a Windows machine, and use APC's PowerChute program to reset the battery date.

This GPU is basically worthless for transcoding. Nvidia has End Of Life support for cards Pascal and older.

Did you reset the battery install date (or whatever your brand of UPS requires) when you replaced the battery. APC requires doing this, else it retains the status of the previous battery.