K80 install problem

I have been going crazy the last 3 days trying to install drivers and get my k80 running on Ubuntu 18.04.

Ive tried installing on Ubuntu 20 also with no luck so decided to go to an older version since its an older gpu.

This is what im getting

sfrye@ella:~/Downloads$ 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.

sfrye@ella:~/Downloads$ nvidia-settings

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

(nvidia-settings:9546): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:50:42.038: g_object_unref: assertion ‘G_IS_OBJECT (object)’ failed
** Message: 15:50:42.044: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 15:50:42.045: PRIME: is it supported? no
sfrye@ella:~/Downloads$ dkms status
nvidia, 470.42.01, 5.4.0-42-generic, x86_64: installed
sfrye@ella:~/Downloads$ lspci -v | grep 3D
03:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK210GL [Tesla K80] (rev a1)
04:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK210GL [Tesla K80] (rev a1)

please any help would be appreciated

note: secure boot is inactive in bios

Try rebooting. Then type # lsmod | grep nvidia
To see if the module is loaded.