diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5fa7231..ce96760 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -144,3 +144,8 @@ Bug fixes:
 
 Bug fixes:
  - Fixed a bug where the CUDA setup failed due to a wrong function call.
+
+### 0.35.3
+
+Bug fixes:
+ - Fixed a bug in the CUDA Setup which led to an incomprehensible error if no GPU was detected.
diff --git a/bitsandbytes/cuda_setup/main.py b/bitsandbytes/cuda_setup/main.py
index 8fdaec0..0fc813b 100644
--- a/bitsandbytes/cuda_setup/main.py
+++ b/bitsandbytes/cuda_setup/main.py
@@ -86,9 +86,7 @@ def get_compute_capabilities(cuda):
         ref_major = ctypes.byref(cc_major)
         ref_minor = ctypes.byref(cc_minor)
         # 2. call extern C function to determine CC
-        check_cuda_result(
-            cuda, cuda.cuDeviceComputeCapability(ref_major, ref_minor, device)
-        )
+        check_cuda_result(cuda, cuda.cuDeviceComputeCapability(ref_major, ref_minor, device))
         ccs.append(f"{cc_major.value}.{cc_minor.value}")
 
     return ccs
@@ -134,9 +132,9 @@ def evaluate_cuda_setup():
     cuda_version_string = get_cuda_version(cuda, cudart_path)
 
 
-    if cc == '':
+    if cc == '' or cc is None:
         cuda_setup.add_log_entry("WARNING: No GPU detected! Check your CUDA paths. Processing to load CPU-only library...", is_warning=True)
-        return binary_name
+        return binary_name, cudart_path, cuda, cc, cuda_version_string
 
     # 7.5 is the minimum CC vor cublaslt
     has_cublaslt = cc in ["7.5", "8.0", "8.6"]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bbb53a1..13328dd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def read(fname):
 
 setup(
     name=f"bitsandbytes",
-    version=f"0.35.2",
+    version=f"0.35.3",
     author="Tim Dettmers",
     author_email="dettmers@cs.washington.edu",
     description="8-bit optimizers and matrix multiplication routines.",