To ensure normal operation, a Cloud GPU Service instance must have the correct driver installed. If you need to upgrade the driver or uninstall the current driver for any reason, make sure the new driver matches your instance specifications, operating system, and business requirements. This helps avoid service disruptions caused by driver incompatibility.
Note:
NVIDIA rendering GPU instance types include GPU passthrough instances (full/physical GPU) and vGPU instances (fractional GPUs, such as 1/4 GPU).
Passthrough (physical) GPUs can use the GRID driver to support rendering scenarios or the Tesla driver to enable computing scenarios.
vGPUs can only use specific versions of the GRID driver to support different scenarios.
Operation Steps
Windows
Linux
Taking Tencent Cloud operating systems Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 as examples.
1. Open the control panel.
2. In the Control Panel, choose Programs and Features > NVIDIA Graphics Drivers, right-click the GRID driver you wish to remove, and then click Uninstall.
3. After uninstallation is complete, restart the instance as prompted. Once restarted, the GRID driver has been successfully uninstalled.
Taking Tencent Cloud operating system TencentOS Server 3.1 (TK4) as an example.
1. Execute the following commands with root permissions to uninstall the GRID driver and restart the instance.
nvidia-installer --uninstall -s
dracut --force &&reboot
2. After restarting and logging in to the instance, execute the following command to confirm that no NVIDIA kernel modules are present.
lsmod |grep nvidia
The following output indicates that the uninstallation was successful.
