# Duel CPU's with Nvidia GPU harware transcoding failes to start

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [May 12, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duel-cpus-with-nvidia-gpu-harware-transcoding-failes-to-start/840897 "2023-05-12T19:07:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![2neon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e8c25b/32.png) [@2neon](https://forums.plex.tv/u/2neon)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/duel-cpus-with-nvidia-gpu-harware-transcoding-failes-to-start/840897/5 "2023-05-13T23:21:29Z")

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Hi Preston007,  
Im also in exactly the same boat as yourself here. I’ve been trying to get this to work since March.

> [@Hardware transcoding issue](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-issue/826410/329):
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> After reading the entire thread it looks like I’m having the same issues as @Ossalingur in post 206. I know the “me too” post doesn’t help so I will try and expand on this. Im trying to get PMS to use the Nvidia Quadro p400 in my system. The system it’s self is a Xeon based server with 2 x E5-2630 v3 CPU’s. This is where my issue is the same as previous, Hardware encoding seems to fail with this cpu’s, even though I’m trying to use the gpu. The stream simply stops when trying to transcode from …

I have dual Xeon CPUs, in fact possibly the exact same cpu.  
A few people on that thread had the same issue with dual processors. I’ve still not got to the bottom of it.  
I’ve tried bare metal installs of Ubuntu, docker and virtualisation, still can’t get plex to hardware transcode with the nvidia gpu for my web client.  
I’m more than happy to add logs or test any config

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