# Do I need to restart my training if GPU runtime force stopped?

**URL:** <https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/do-i-need-to-restart-my-training-if-gpu-runtime-force-stopped/211>\
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**Created:** [March 13, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/do-i-need-to-restart-my-training-if-gpu-runtime-force-stopped/211 "2022-03-13T01:04:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kelly\_M](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/kelly_m/32/18_2.png) [@Kelly\_M](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Kelly_M)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/do-i-need-to-restart-my-training-if-gpu-runtime-force-stopped/211/1 "2022-03-13T01:04:22Z")

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Hi! Thanks for the great features on data processing. I am training the YoloV4 model using Google Colab, but the GPU runtime was forced stop after running for hours… may I know if I can continue the training instead of restart it?

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**Author:** ![anon59033456](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@anon59033456](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/anon59033456)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/do-i-need-to-restart-my-training-if-gpu-runtime-force-stopped/211/2 "2022-03-13T01:05:55Z")

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If you saved the model weights you can kick off the training from the weights checkpoint.

Check out the blog below for more info!

> **[How to Save and Load Model Weights in Google Colab](https://blog.roboflow.com/how-to-save-and-load-weights-in-google-colab/)**
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> Google Colab is Google's hosted Jupyter Notebook product that provides a free compute environment, including GPU and TPU. Colab comes "batteries included" with many popular Python packages installed, making it a choice tool for easy model...