diff --git a/modules/AutoGPTQ_loader.py b/modules/AutoGPTQ_loader.py
index ac0a04dc..adbee7eb 100644
--- a/modules/AutoGPTQ_loader.py
+++ b/modules/AutoGPTQ_loader.py
@@ -13,19 +13,18 @@ def load_quantized(model_name):
     use_safetensors = False
 
     # Find the model checkpoint
-    found_pts = list(path_to_model.glob("*.pt"))
-    found_safetensors = list(path_to_model.glob("*.safetensors"))
-    if len(found_safetensors) > 0:
-        if len(found_safetensors) > 1:
-            logging.warning('More than one .safetensors model has been found. The last one will be selected. It could be wrong.')
+    for ext in ['.safetensors', '.pt', '.bin']:
+        found = list(path_to_model.glob(f"*{ext}"))
+        if len(found) > 0:
+            if len(found) > 1:
+                logging.warning(f'More than one {ext} model has been found. The last one will be selected. It could be wrong.')
 
-        use_safetensors = True
-        pt_path = found_safetensors[-1]
-    elif len(found_pts) > 0:
-        if len(found_pts) > 1:
-            logging.warning('More than one .pt model has been found. The last one will be selected. It could be wrong.')
+            pt_path = found[-1]
+            break
 
-        pt_path = found_pts[-1]
+    if pt_path is None:
+        logging.error("The model could not be loaded because its checkpoint file in .bin/.pt/.safetensors format could not be located.")
+        return
 
     # Define the params for AutoGPTQForCausalLM.from_quantized
     params = {
diff --git a/modules/models.py b/modules/models.py
index ded61b77..a04a7ec8 100644
--- a/modules/models.py
+++ b/modules/models.py
@@ -40,10 +40,14 @@ if shared.args.deepspeed:
 # Some models require special treatment in various parts of the code.
 # This function detects those models
 def find_model_type(model_name):
+    path_to_model = Path(f'{shared.args.model_dir}/{model_name}')
+    if not path_to_model.exists():
+        return 'None'
+
     model_name_lower = model_name.lower()
     if 'rwkv-' in model_name_lower:
         return 'rwkv'
-    elif len(list(Path(f'{shared.args.model_dir}/{model_name}').glob('*ggml*.bin'))) > 0:
+    elif len(list(path_to_model.glob('*ggml*.bin'))) > 0:
         return 'llamacpp'
     elif re.match('.*ggml.*\.bin', model_name_lower):
         return 'llamacpp'
@@ -58,7 +62,7 @@ def find_model_type(model_name):
     elif any((k in model_name_lower for k in ['gpt4chan', 'gpt-4chan'])):
         return 'gpt4chan'
     else:
-        config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(Path(f'{shared.args.model_dir}/{model_name}'), trust_remote_code=shared.args.trust_remote_code)
+        config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(path_to_model, trust_remote_code=shared.args.trust_remote_code)
         # Not a "catch all", but fairly accurate
         if config.to_dict().get("is_encoder_decoder", False):
             return 'HF_seq2seq'
@@ -71,11 +75,14 @@ def load_model(model_name):
     t0 = time.time()
 
     shared.model_type = find_model_type(model_name)
-    if shared.args.wbits > 0 or shared.args.autogptq:
-        if shared.args.autogptq:
-            load_func = AutoGPTQ_loader
-        else:
-            load_func = GPTQ_loader
+    if shared.model_type == 'None':
+        logging.error('The path to the model does not exist. Exiting.')
+        return None, None
+
+    if shared.args.autogptq:
+        load_func = AutoGPTQ_loader
+    elif shared.args.wbits > 0:
+        load_func = GPTQ_loader
     elif shared.model_type == 'llamacpp':
         load_func = llamacpp_loader
     elif shared.model_type == 'rwkv':
@@ -101,6 +108,7 @@ def load_model(model_name):
 
 
 def load_tokenizer(model_name, model):
+    tokenizer = None
     if shared.model_type == 'gpt4chan' and Path(f"{shared.args.model_dir}/gpt-j-6B/").exists():
         tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(Path(f"{shared.args.model_dir}/gpt-j-6B/"))
     elif type(model) is transformers.LlamaForCausalLM:
@@ -122,7 +130,9 @@ def load_tokenizer(model_name, model):
         except:
             pass
     else:
-        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(Path(f"{shared.args.model_dir}/{model_name}/"), trust_remote_code=shared.args.trust_remote_code)
+        path_to_model = Path(f"{shared.args.model_dir}/{model_name}/")
+        if path_to_model.exists():
+            tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(path_to_model, trust_remote_code=shared.args.trust_remote_code)
 
     return tokenizer