Nvidia Tesla P4

I’m absolutely Baffled by this.

I am trying to install an Nvidia P4 in my computer for a low powered datacenter graphics card (for AI). The installation process is fine. However, after when looking in device manager I get the “This device cannot start. (Code 10) - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API”

I have an i5-13500 have also tried with an i3-12100f. Both are failing.
I have a Asrock motherboard with B660 Chipset.

What I find strange is that in gpuz is reporting that my other intel gpu is working completely fine with rebar on. (apparently on newer intel the setting is called Clever Access Memory C.A.M.) The intel arc works perfectly for gaming. But, I am struggling with getting the tesla to work for everything else.

It’s a completely new installation of Windows. By this point I have reinstalled windows halfadozen times now. Teetering on whether I should switch to Linux. Or just sell my intel arc and tesla and just get a 4060.

The intel arc a750 is great and I got it for only 185. But it just doesn’t have the same feature set and software to use it for e.g. cuda chess bots or llms.

Hi there,

I used to run a Tesla P4 in one of my lab machines. Had it working both on Windows and Linux. For Windows, you need to use a fairly old NVidia set of drivers, I think 419.67 international desktop was the version that worked. I believe I also tried 472.39 Grid which worked, but not for games.

Hope this helps.

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What version of windows did you use? Sounds like it might have been a different one to Win11. In terms of Support for Linux Drivers what would be the best distro to try it out on?

I would try Arch, just not one of its derivatives. You should be able to use the latest stable Nividia drivers on Arch Linux.

I was using Windows 11. I had a OLD NVS card for display and used the P4 for rendering or other jobs. Set that through the GPU properties on the app. Usually the error yiu are getting is due to the wrong driver being installed. Nvidias latest did not work on it if i recall.

On Linux, had it working just fine on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 using the 470 driver. Thats was for CUDA apps for docker containers. I found Ubuntu 22.04 was best supported.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks for letting everyone know which Linux distribution best supports the Nividia P4. I prefer Ubuntu over Arch Linux.

Yep that certainly did help!


I had to get the grid drivers off gcp. Trial an error got me to version 538.78

It’s really strange why nvidia don’t just have the grid on their website but :person_shrugging:

^where I got drivers from

Rebar is still saying it is disabled in gpuz but I am glad it is atleast working.

Will probably try using Ubuntu later. Never used Linux with any device with a dgpu before. Ive only ever used the server version of it.

Never used arch. (Though I should prob give it a go sometime.)

Thanks both

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I don’t mean to be a dick, and sorry to everyone getting pings, but did you use an AI to write this response?

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@martona Sunday, I was trying to do six things at once, so I ran @FactsMachine issue through my hardware issue bot, reviewed its answer, and then posted it. What is wrong with letting AI help you answer posts?

AI stuff tends to be verbose, generic & vague. Is it not enough that it obviously stands out as such?

It’s flooding everything, from amazon reviews through employee communications to tweets. Just dismayed to see it pop up here is all.

This is my first time browsing these forums, and if martona hadn’t answered I would have assumed this was SOP around here and never given the site a chance.

As far as L1 staff is concerned we don’t use AI when responding to people. Idk what other people do, they can use AI if they want to/we can’t stop them. As a general statement, I don’t see people using it much. Nonetheless @Shadowbane I don’t think there’s anything against this, but please preface you’ve used AI for transparency’s sake and forum etiquette. @Impact_Wench we’re all pretty chill here, and thank you for joining. Feel free to ask questions or @ us moderators

Welcome. It’s a good site. Small but friendly.

I say that like I was a regular, but I lurk, ok? I lurk.

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