# My competition Space stuck on "Startup" when using GPU

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/my-competition-space-stuck-on-startup-when-using-gpu/162953>\
**Category:** Spaces\
**Created:** [July 14, 2025, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/my-competition-space-stuck-on-startup-when-using-gpu/162953 "2025-07-14T10:11:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![ccccsc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@ccccsc](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/ccccsc)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/my-competition-space-stuck-on-startup-when-using-gpu/162953/1 "2025-07-14T10:11:56Z")

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The competition space works fine three days ago. But today when I try to restart the competition space, it stuck on "Application Startup ".  
When using CPU only, it can start normally, but when using GPU, it stuck.

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**Author:** ![Angelina067](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/angelina067/32/51060_2.png) [@Angelina067](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Angelina067)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/my-competition-space-stuck-on-startup-when-using-gpu/162953/2 "2025-07-14T10:44:41Z")

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It seems to be a GPU driver issue. Since it worked 3 days ago but now only works with CPU, something changed with the GPU setup.

Let it try to restarting the computer first 'coz sometimes GPU processes get stuck. If that doesn’t work, you might need to update the GPU drivers.

The application is having trouble connecting to the graphics card. It’s likely a driver issue that can be fixed with a simple restart or driver update.

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**Author:** ![ccccsc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@ccccsc](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/ccccsc)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/my-competition-space-stuck-on-startup-when-using-gpu/162953/3 "2025-07-14T10:50:22Z")

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I can also run on GPU three days ago. And I didn’t change the GPU driver version. The only thing I have done is stopping the running space 3 days ago and restart it today. And it doesn’t work anymore

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/my-competition-space-stuck-on-startup-when-using-gpu/162953/4 "2025-07-14T10:52:46Z")

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Seems many users in trouble same way.

> [@My Space is stuck on “Starting on T4” all day](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/my-space-is-stuck-on-starting-on-t4-all-day/162704):
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> My Space has been stuck on “Starting on T4” for several hours and it doesn’t move forward or enter the “Running” state. I’ve tried restarting it, but the issue persists.