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@JorgeB - thanks for the assist. I had that same weird problem, but your "dummy change" recommendation did the trick (unraid 6.12.14)

@ich777 I really appreciate all the help you provided...not to mention the integration between UNRAID & NVIDIA! I did get a chance to re-seat the card in the slot. I double checked the power connections and gave them an extra push to make sure they were in tightly. Slightly off-topic but I fixed the antenna for the onboard wireless NIC as well. After re-seating the card, I was able to make it visible within the settings->nvidia tab, without crashing the server. Again, thank you for your help and the integration!

I had a chance to bring the array down and try the nvidia install again, which worked fine. Like last time the diagnostics froze on 'nvidia-smi --query 2' command. I ran it manually within the console and it also hung up. Two CPU cores were pegged at 100% during both of these. And because I like poking my tongue on a painful tooth, I also tried going to Settings->Nvidia, which froze UNRAID again. I hard reset it, removed the nvidia driver, and restarted the array without issue. I'm beginning to think that I damaged the GPU during my work on the chassis last week. I tried going to the root of the flash to find the temporary diagnostic folder the diag operation makes, but it got deleted with the reboot. Other diags still exist on boot/logs.

Thanks again @ich777! GPU for sure isn't working properly. My comment about the video output was more to the effect of "it's not 100% fried" than the GPU being OK. It was OK before I started messing with it ( sigh ). Sadly, I don't have another system to test it on as my old NAS platform died. Thanks for the reminder on the Array management - I did start halting the array about half-way through my repeated tests. I did totally forget about disabling Autostart though...Thanks! I will likely get a chance today to do some more troubleshooting. Thanks again!

Thanks for the reply @ich777 ! I will have to find a time window to reinstall the Nvidia driver, i.e. a moment where I won't get yelled at for bringing down Plex, lol. Here's my parade of problems, leading up to this: 1) Attempted to upgrade RAM from 24 GB to 64 GB. Had to remove GPU to get access to half of the clips. 2) Broke flimsy antenna, the one connected to my WiFi card (NBD, not planning on using it). 3) Broke off the plastic tab off my parity Hard Disk, taking some connection needles with it. Had to replace the hard drive and SATA cable on that one. 4) RAM upgrade prevented the system from booting. No POST errors, not loading to BIOS, no video output, nothing. Had to roll back to my old RAM. 5) Rebuilt Parity 6) Rebuilt Docker stack. 7) After crashing UNRAID three times from NVIDIA driver installs, gave up. \8) I did realize the power cables to the GPU were not the way they were supposed to be, so I switched them back (same power plugs though) - still crashed after driver install. 9) I am getting video output from GPU. Physical connection (DVI) works fine. 10) Previous attempts to run diag with the Nvidia driver installed causes unraid to freeze (froze on nvidia-smi), so I'm a bit hesitant to try this again, though I will once I have a good window. Previous attempts included having the GPU with reversed power plugs, so that could be part of the problem. 11) BIOS settings having changed since I enabled virtualization about a month ago. I will try the diag dump with the driver installed. Hopefully switching the power cables back resolve that issue.

I had this running great, following these instructions. I was trying to upgrade my RAM and ran into a cascade of problems, one of which is now any attempt to reinstall the NVIDIA driver causes my entire system to freeze, requiring a hard reset. I had to remove & replace the GPU to get to the RAM slots. UNRAID sees the device, the install works fine, but when I go to look at the NVIDIA driver information under settings, the entire system freezes within 20 seconds, and I never get any the NVIDIA driver page to come up. Any help would be appreciated. PLEASE NOTE: All equipment in my device is the same as it was before, when the GPU was humming along. The only difference is I had to replace my parity drive. Parity has been re-written, and parity check has run a few times. I had a massive Docker issue at the same time I was wrestling with the GPU, which required me to reinstall the docker.img file hwProf.xml tower-diagnostics-20241014-1006.zip

Possible about the sleep mode: I will have to check the specs on the UPS for that. It also seems that you agree with @JonathanM, that it could be a setting in the BIOS

Perfect, I will look there.

UNRAID v6.1.24 Hardware - 15 year old Dell XPS. System has 'latest' BIOS update, but that dates back to 2009. UPS is APC Back-UPS ES 650G1 I have my NAS connected to my UPS by a USB cable. Graceful shutdown configured and works as expected with a power outage today. The power came back on a few hours later, and without my intervention the server powered back on by itself. TBH I am pleasantly surprised, as I thought this was not the case, but I am perplexed as to how this happened. I don't recall configuring this, and I don't see any "power on after outage" configurations in the UPS Settings (web console). Can anyone explain this?