diff --git a/modules/models.py b/modules/models.py
index 98349705..cccf1d2d 100644
--- a/modules/models.py
+++ b/modules/models.py
@@ -145,17 +145,18 @@ def huggingface_loader(model_name):
         else:
             LoaderClass = AutoModelForCausalLM
 
-    # Load the model in simple 16-bit mode by default
+    # Load the model without any special settings
     if not any([shared.args.cpu, shared.args.load_in_8bit, shared.args.load_in_4bit, shared.args.auto_devices, shared.args.disk, shared.args.deepspeed, shared.args.gpu_memory is not None, shared.args.cpu_memory is not None, shared.args.compress_pos_emb > 1, shared.args.alpha_value > 1, shared.args.disable_exllama, shared.args.disable_exllamav2]):
         model = LoaderClass.from_pretrained(path_to_model, **params)
-        if torch.backends.mps.is_available():
-            device = torch.device('mps')
-            model = model.to(device)
-        elif is_xpu_available():
-            device = torch.device("xpu")
-            model = model.to(device)
-        else:
-            model = model.cuda()
+        if not (hasattr(model, 'is_loaded_in_4bit') and model.is_loaded_in_4bit):
+            if torch.backends.mps.is_available():
+                device = torch.device('mps')
+                model = model.to(device)
+            elif is_xpu_available():
+                device = torch.device("xpu")
+                model = model.to(device)
+            else:
+                model = model.cuda()
 
     # DeepSpeed ZeRO-3
     elif shared.args.deepspeed: