Upgrade NVIDIA drivers - Elastic GPU Service - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

If the version of your NVIDIA driver is no longer suitable for your scenarios, or if you install an NVIDIA driver whose type or version is invalid for your GPU-accelerated instance, you can uninstall the existing driver and install a new driver to upgrade the driver on the instance. This topic describes how to uninstall the existing driver and install a new driver on your GPU-accelerated instance. The methods that you can use to uninstall the existing driver and install the new driver vary based on the driver type and the OS that the drivers run.

Uninstall the existing driver

Use one of the following methods based on the type of your driver:

Install a new driver

Use one of the following methods based on the type of your driver:

If you need to install a GPU driver, use one of the following methods based on the OS that the driver runs:
- Install a Windows GPU driver on a GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance
- Install a Linux GPU driver on a GPU-accelerated compute-optimized instance
If you need to install a GRID driver, use one of the following methods based on the OS that the driver runs:
- Install a Window GRID driver on a GPU-accelerated instance
  
  Notice The GRID driver that you can install on a vGPU-accelerated instance varies based on the instance family to which the vGPU-accelerated instance belongs. If you install a GRID driver that does not match your instance family, you cannot use the instance. Therefore, if you need to install a new GRID driver on a vGPU-accelerated instance, install a GRID driver of the version that matches the instance family to which the instance belongs.