# No GPU (nvidia-smi failed)

## post by kresimir58 on Mar 27, 2024

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:

```bash
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:

```bash
apt update && apt install
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

## post by stevenic on Apr 30, 2024

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

## post by marek on Jul 8, 2024

Having the same issue here on my Tensorbook

## post by kresimir58 on Jul 11, 2024

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.