Hardware
Common GPU Operations and Fault Handling
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Content referenced or recorded while handling faults, continuously updated. 1. XID Error Events XID is NVIDIA’s error code. You can retrieve it with the command: 1 dmesg -T | grep -i "NVRM: Xid" or 1 journalctl --since `date -d "10 days ago" "+%Y-%m-%d"`|grep Xid The XID lets you locate the fault.

Basic Usage of nvidia-smi
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1. What Is nvidia-smi nvidia-smi stands for NVIDIA System Management Interface, the interface NVIDIA provides for managing and monitoring GPUs. nvidia-smi calls NVML. NVML stands for NVIDIA Management Library, a library that provides a set of C APIs for NVIDIA GPU monitoring and management. 1.1 Queryable State ECC error counts GPU utilization Active compute processes Clocks and PState Temperature and fan speed Power management Hardware identification 1.

How to Add NVIDIA GPU Nodes to a Kubernetes Cluster
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1. Disk Handling 1.1 Inspect Disks Inspect the new disk 1 fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 3.91 TiB, 4294967296000 bytes, 8388608000 sectors 1.2 Build a RAID0 If you have several small disks, a better approach is to build a RAID0 β€” this gives you not only a larger storage directory but also higher speed.

Installing macOS on a Dell OptiPlex 7080MT
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About ten years ago, I installed macOS on a laptop. The biggest headache back then was that only specific hardware could succeed, and drivers for all sorts of things were missing. Later I bought my own Mac laptop and stopped paying attention to how to install macOS on generic machines for a long time.

Surface Pen Not Responding
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Recently, while using my Surface, I dug out the stylus and found it was out of battery. I swapped in a new AAAA battery, and then discovered the pen tip had stopped responding to touch. Many documents online recommend uninstalling Marvell AVASTAR Bluetooth and rebooting for this to take effect. But that method did not work for me; uninstalling Precise Touch Device is what actually worked.