I've sent you a PM so we don't flood the thread.

2 hours ago, Christian_P said:

This is really frustrating.

Please, as mentioned in the first post, post your Diagnostics, I really can't tell anything without them (please note that I need Diagnostics from 7.1.4).

Many people are using their cards just fine with 7.1.4

1 hour ago, ich777 said:

Please, as mentioned in the first post, post your Diagnostics, I really can't tell anything without them (please note that I need Diagnostics from 7.1.4).

Many people are using their cards just fine with 7.1.4

Diagnostics attached.

"Many people are using their cards just fine with 7.1.4"...
Yeah... So I've been told. Or they have just given up and reverted back to an earlier version...

gkopunr-2-diagnostics-20250714-1618.zip

28 minutes ago, Christian_P said:

Or they have just given up and reverted back to an earlier version...

Can you point me to the ones that have reverted because of Nvidia not working?

It is really obvious why it's not working in your case, because you've enabled for whatever reason the nouveau driver by creating the file /boot/config/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf

Please remove that file and the driver will work again, even your syslog just tells that:

Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: GPU 0000:42:00.0 is already bound to nouveau.
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: This can occur when another driver was loaded and 
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: obtained ownership of the NVIDIA device(s).
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: driver(s)), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: again.
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA devices probed.

BTW, these are the download counts for 7.1.4 and I think if that many people are having issues with the driver, this thread would be exploding:

    name: 6.12.24-Unraid,
        name: nvidia-565.77-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 564,
        name: nvidia-570.144-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 1626,
        name: nvidia-570.153.02-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 2151,
        name: nvidia-570.169-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 2085,
        name: nvidia-575.51.02-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 14661,
        name: nvidia-575.57.08-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 10163,
        name: nvidia-575.64-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 8852,
        name: nvidia-575.64.03-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 8570,
        name: nvos-570.144-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 684,
        name: nvos-575.57.08-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 458

6 minutes ago, ich777 said:

Can you point me to the ones that have reverted because of Nvidia not working?

It is really obvious why it's not working in your case, because you've enabled for whatever reason the nouveau driver by creating the file /boot/config/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf

Please remove that file and the driver will work again, even your syslog just tells that:

Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: GPU 0000:42:00.0 is already bound to nouveau.
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: This can occur when another driver was loaded and 
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: obtained ownership of the NVIDIA device(s).
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: driver(s)), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: again.
Jul 14 16:15:51 GKOPUNR-2 kernel: NVRM: No NVIDIA devices probed.

BTW, these are the download counts for 7.1.4 and I think if that many people are having issues with the driver, this thread would be exploding:

    name: 6.12.24-Unraid,
        name: nvidia-565.77-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 564,
        name: nvidia-570.144-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 1626,
        name: nvidia-570.153.02-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 2151,
        name: nvidia-570.169-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 2085,
        name: nvidia-575.51.02-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 14661,
        name: nvidia-575.57.08-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 10163,
        name: nvidia-575.64-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 8852,
        name: nvidia-575.64.03-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 8570,
        name: nvos-570.144-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 684,
        name: nvos-575.57.08-6.12.24-Unraid-1.txz,
        download_count: 458

Thank you for your help!!!!

This was really helpful.

I have not enabled anything, i've just installed it as it was but I will try to figure out how to disable the Nouveau driver ad give it a try

On 7/9/2025 at 9:09 PM, ich777 said:

Please don‘t overthink that, you know that I have the driver version 4xx in the plugin available?

This is basically the old legacy driver which has support for pretty old cards (GTX 7xx series cards, these cards are now about 10 years old) and I will continue to compile that driver version as long as it compiles against newer Kernel versions and I will continue that for the new legacy cards.

Please don‘t panic that hard.

…and no there are no cli tools for that. The plugin just downloads precompiled drivers for your Unraid version that I have to compile in the first place and upload.

You can compile drivers yourself yes bit you have to set up your own development environment for that which is not necessary.

Is there some way to show driver version 4xx in the plugin, as I cannot see them currently? The oldest available version for me is v565.77

The plugin cannot find my NVDIA "GeForce GTX 1080 Ti" driver but I can find it at system devices. What happened?

5 hours ago, Flumpiey said:

Is there some way to show driver version 4xx in the plugin, as I cannot see them currently? The oldest available version for me is v565.77

What Unraid version are you on?

Diagnostics, please?

1 hour ago, fxhe said:

The plugin cannot find my NVDIA "GeForce GTX 1080 Ti" driver but I can find it at system devices. What happened?

I don't know, please post your Diagnostics, without them I can't say anything.

On 7/13/2025 at 12:56 PM, jm028 said:

I wanted to share how I was able to resolve this issue:

• From Flash settings in Unraid GUI, Enable Permit UEFI boot mode

• In BIOS, Disable Boot > CSM (Compatibility Support Module)

So far, logs are clear for 24 hours after changing:
Boot > CSM to Disable.

Will report back after a couple days.

9 hours ago, ich777 said:

I don't know, please post your Diagnostics, without them I can't say anything.

tower-diagnostics-20250716-0851.zip

5 hours ago, fxhe said:

tower-diagnostics-20250716-0851.zip

I assume a download failed from the Nvidia Driver maybe with the update check but I can't tell for sure since there is a unfinished download in the Nvidia Driver Plugin folder.

However I see that you are on Unraid 6.12.0, please consider upgrading to something recent since I really can't tell if everything is working on such an "old" version.

I would also recommend that you consider buying Unraid instead of pirating it.

@SpencerJ

8 hours ago, ich777 said:

I assume a download failed from the Nvidia Driver maybe with the update check but I can't tell for sure since there is a unfinished download in the Nvidia Driver Plugin folder.

However I see that you are on Unraid 6.12.0, please consider upgrading to something recent since I really can't tell if everything is working on such an "old" version.

I would also recommend that you consider buying Unraid instead of pirating it.

@SpencerJ

OK. THANKS!

Well I seem to have the same issue as the two above, I do not have the 4xx driver option anymore after updating from 7.1.1 to latest.

It seems it defaulted to the latest driver version which won't work on my 780Ti that I still have (for now).



edit: removed diagnostics seems it was not needed.

Edited July 16, 2025Jul 16 by Ocgineer

6 minutes ago, Ocgineer said:

Well I seem to have the same issue as the two above, I do not have the 4xx driver option anymore after updating from 7.1.1 to latest.

Issue is that the 4xx series driver doesn't compile against newer Kernels and therefore you don't see this version anymore.

As already a few times discussed here, there is a patch for the driver to make it compile against newer Kernels but this patch introduces instability to the System and I'm not willing to ship a driver who make the systems of Unraid users unstable.

It might be time for an upgrade since the 780Ti was first introduced in November 2013, maybe try to look into something recent like a Nvidia T400, T600 or even a T1000 or even newer a Nvidia A400 or A1000, since these cards will easily outperform your card.

Hmm that is a shame, I had the 780Ti just lying around back then when I made the server and honestly it was just doing some stuff for Jellyfin.

Lucky I have my GTX1080 now lying around as I finally upgraded my main PC's GPU few months ago, now if only if I remember where I put the PCIe Power cables.

9 minutes ago, Ocgineer said:

Lucky I have my GTX1080 now lying around as I finally upgraded my main PC's GPU few months ago, now if only if I remember where I put the PCIe Power cables.

May I ask what system do you have since you've removed the Diagnostics I can't see them anymore.

If it's a Intel based system it would be maybe more than enough if you use the iGPU for transcoding.

17 minutes ago, ich777 said:

May I ask what system do you have since you've removed the Diagnostics I can't see them anymore.

If it's a Intel based system it would be maybe more than enough if you use the iGPU for transcoding.

Oh it is an AMD Ryzen 7 1800X system so it doesn't have an iGPU, server is build just from replaced parts from other main PC's, but no worries, I'll check what I can do if the older drivers will just cause instability it is just time to upgrade that part. 😂

Just adding this for anyone else who might have this problem in the future.

I had upgraded my unraid server's GPU from a Quadro P400 to an RTX 4000 ada sff. It was showing up in the system devices but the nvidia driver was giving the "NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver" error. I followed all of the troubleshooting in the OP of this thread and search several other places.

I found on Nvidia's forums that you need to have Above 4G decoding enabled on your bios, and in my case I also had to disable CSM in my bios. I did also enable resizable bar, but I am unsure if that was required (it should be turned on, though).

Hope that this can save someone some time in the future.

Hello everyone

I'm new to Unraid.

I want to update from 7.0.1 to 7.1.4 and now I'm getting the following error message before the update:
"Nvidia Driver v565.77 download failed, please go to the support thread for this plugin and post a screenshot of this error!"

What can I do?

server-diagnostics-20250717-1250.zip

19 hours ago, rizlaa said:

What can I do?

Please try to reboot anyways, please also check if your server can communicate with the GitHub API, the plugin will try to download the driver package on boot anyways if it doesn't exist or in your case the download failed but please keep in mind that the boot will take a bit longer.

Are you sure that you have enough free space on the USB Boot device since the driver is about 250MB nowadays.

BTW, I also removed your Diagnostics since you are using rsync and everything what was synced showed up.

Hallo @ich777,

ich verwende eine NVIDIA GTX 650 und benötige dafür die Legacy-Treiberversion 470.199.02, da neuere Treiber diese Karte leider nicht mehr unterstützen.

Wäre es möglich, dass du diese Version ins NVIDIA Driver Plugin aufnimmst?

Danke dir im Voraus für deine großartige Arbeit!

I had a previous thread in the VM section regarding passing through a newly installed 9060XT AMD GPU for Windows 10 here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/192068-solved-gpu-passthrough-windows-10-vm/

The solution given which pointed to this reddit post indicated to update the unRAID Kernel and running a user script.

I recently noticed my frigate and plex containers are not starting due to my nvidia gpu (Quadro P1000) not being detected. Confirmed this is the case and also noticed that the nVidia Driver plugin is no longer installed. When trying to reinstall the nvidia driver plugin i get the following error:

-----ERROR - ERROR - ERROR - ERROR - ERROR - ERROR - ERROR - ERROR - ERROR------
---Can't get latest Nvidia driver version and found no installed local driver---
Removing package: nvidia-driver-2025.03.25
plugin: run failed: '/bin/bash' returned 1
Executing hook script: post_plugin_checks

I'm assuming that the kernel update has something to do with this (or perhaps the PCIe ACS Overide) but is there a workaround that does not involve going back to the old kernel, which will likely then bring me back to my original problem which is passing the amdgpu through without the VM freezing?

homelab-diagnostics-20250718-2302.zip

1 hour ago, Toady001 said:

The solution

I would describe that as a workaround.

1 hour ago, Toady001 said:

I'm assuming that the kernel update has something to do with

Yes, the driver plugins only support official Kernels because each driver needs to be compiled specificly for each Kernel and since you are on a Kernel version that‘s not officially supported ther is no driver package for the plugins to download.

You can compile the drivers yourself if you want to (everything is in the GitHub from the driver plugins) but please be aware that this is not an easy task because you would need to come up with a way to install the drivers on boot and load them.

Second way is to ask the maintainer from the custom Kernel to create you a driver package.

Please understand that I only can say:

No support from my side if you are using a custom Kernel.

13 hours ago, FlyHummingbird said:

ich verwende eine NVIDIA GTX 650 und benötige dafür die Legacy-Treiberversion 470.199.02, da neuere Treiber diese Karte leider nicht mehr unterstützen.

in the plugin section, english only please, otherwise rather use the german section ;)

13 hours ago, FlyHummingbird said:

Wäre es möglich, dass du diese Version ins NVIDIA Driver Plugin aufnimmst?

to answer the question, nope, lets call it "end of life" ;)

besides, as far as i know there is nothing you could really do with it anyway, nvenc and co ... ar not there on this card ?