[GH-ISSUE #8637] can't install deepseek 1.7b on windows #5594

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opened 2026-04-12 16:52:10 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 6 comments
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Originally created by @passtock on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8637

What is the issue?

while trying to run ollama run deepseek-r1:7b it repeatedly fails at about 6%.everytime i try to run deepseek
i get an error saying error max retries exceeded: EOF

OS

Windows

GPU

Nvidia

CPU

Intel

Ollama version

latest

Originally created by @passtock on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8637 ### What is the issue? while trying to run ollama run deepseek-r1:7b it repeatedly fails at about 6%.everytime i try to run deepseek i get an error saying error max retries exceeded: EOF ### OS Windows ### GPU Nvidia ### CPU Intel ### Ollama version latest
GiteaMirror added the networkingbug labels 2026-04-12 16:52:10 -05:00
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@regs01 commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025):

Same with 7B. But 32B and 70B downloaded without problem.

./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b
pulling manifest
pulling 96c415656d37...  38% ▕████████████████████████████████████████████                                                                            1.8 GB/4.7 GB
Error: max retries exceeded: EOF
./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b
pulling manifest
pulling 96c415656d37...  50% ▕███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████                                                             2.3 GB/4.7 GB
Error: max retries exceeded: EOF
./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b
pulling manifest
pulling 96c415656d37...  56% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████                                                      2.6 GB/4.7 GB
Error: max retries exceeded: EOF
./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b
pulling manifest
pulling 96c415656d37...  56% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████                                                      2.6 GB/4.7 GB  1.1 MB/s  30m51s
Error: max retries exceeded: EOF
./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b
pulling manifest
pulling 96c415656d37...  62% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████                                              2.9 GB/4.7 GB
<!-- gh-comment-id:2619141097 --> @regs01 commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025): Same with 7B. But 32B and 70B downloaded without problem. ```powershell ./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b pulling manifest pulling 96c415656d37... 38% ▕████████████████████████████████████████████ ▏ 1.8 GB/4.7 GB Error: max retries exceeded: EOF ./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b pulling manifest pulling 96c415656d37... 50% ▕███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ▏ 2.3 GB/4.7 GB Error: max retries exceeded: EOF ./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b pulling manifest pulling 96c415656d37... 56% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ▏ 2.6 GB/4.7 GB Error: max retries exceeded: EOF ./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b pulling manifest pulling 96c415656d37... 56% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ▏ 2.6 GB/4.7 GB 1.1 MB/s 30m51s Error: max retries exceeded: EOF ./ollama run deepseek-r1:7b pulling manifest pulling 96c415656d37... 62% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ▏ 2.9 GB/4.7 GB ```
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@Potracheno commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025):

Seems like infrastructure overloaded because of hype about deepseek. Can suggest wait a little and try again.

<!-- gh-comment-id:2619148887 --> @Potracheno commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025): Seems like infrastructure overloaded because of hype about deepseek. Can suggest wait a little and try again.
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@passtock commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025):

thank you i am trying 8b version maybe it is okay until now. is it a big different 7b and 8b?

<!-- gh-comment-id:2619154609 --> @passtock commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025): thank you i am trying 8b version maybe it is okay until now. is it a big different 7b and 8b?
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@Potracheno commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025):

different 7b and 8b?

For me nothing at all.

<!-- gh-comment-id:2619160385 --> @Potracheno commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025): > different 7b and 8b? For me nothing at all.
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025):

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8632

<!-- gh-comment-id:2619240599 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025): https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8632
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@pdevine commented on GitHub (Jan 29, 2025):

Closing as a dupe.

<!-- gh-comment-id:2623152760 --> @pdevine commented on GitHub (Jan 29, 2025): Closing as a dupe.
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