NVIDIA GPUs not working and nvidia-smi fails to communicate with NVIDIA drivers

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25.10 updated the Nvidia driver and anything older then a 1660 is no longer supported by the newer driver

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NVIDIA Kernel Module Change in TrueNAS 25.10 - What This Means for You

With the upcoming release of the TrueNAS 25.10 “Goldeye” beta, there have been some changes made to the NVIDIA drivers and supporting modules that are compiled and shipped with TrueNAS. TrueNAS 25.10 now uses the NVIDIA open GPU kernel modules with the 570.172.08 driver. This enables TrueNAS to make use of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs - the RTX 50-series and RTX PRO Blackwell cards - which many users have requested support for. [1] [2] [3] Unfortunately, what NVIDIA giveth, NVIDIA taketh away. The N…