that’s a legacy driver for Pascal and Maxwell: why would you use it for a Blackwell? I’d highly recommend upgrading to v595 or v610.
That’s really ancient… I’d recommend some LTS that was released after the Blackwell, for example 6.18.
I have never seen any such messages: GPUs just fall off the bus to my knowledge. You can try to watch thermals yourself, but in case you haven’t heard the news, the fact that the lying NV drivers report normal thermals, means absolutely nothing.
More generally, in the words of an NV eng:
So apart from thermals, make sure you have the latest BIOS/UEFI firmware for your mobo and that your PSU delivers sufficient amount of juice.
At this point I think it’s safe to say that 5090s and pro6000s do it on a semi-regular basis (regardless of the driver version). Just search this forum. This may be related to the hidden thermal issue, but not enough data yet to prove this.
Definitely, as stated at the beginning.
One of my business partners is experimenting with lowering max wattage to his pro6000 cards, but in such case you may as well go with AMD…
NV kernel modules are notorious for throwing a tantrum when a GPU falls off the bus and they usually destabilize the whole PCI kernel subsystem to the point that a reboot is the only option, so I wouldn’t be concerned about the AER (for example on my laptop it causes WiFi and NVMes to stop responding).