diff --git a/modules/models_settings.py b/modules/models_settings.py
index 2d161ad5..c3712db2 100644
--- a/modules/models_settings.py
+++ b/modules/models_settings.py
@@ -204,14 +204,11 @@ def update_model_parameters(state, initial=False):
             value = vars(shared.args_defaults)[element]
 
         # Making some simple conversions
-        if element in ['wbits', 'groupsize', 'pre_layer']:
+        if element in ['wbits', 'groupsize']:
             value = int(value)
         elif element == 'cpu_memory' and value is not None:
             value = f"{value}MiB"
 
-        if element in ['pre_layer']:
-            value = [value] if value > 0 else None
-
         setattr(shared.args, element, value)
 
     found_positive = False
diff --git a/modules/ui.py b/modules/ui.py
index 0126190a..a202d325 100644
--- a/modules/ui.py
+++ b/modules/ui.py
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ def list_model_elements():
         'use_double_quant',
         'wbits',
         'groupsize',
-        'pre_layer',
         'triton',
         'desc_act',
         'no_inject_fused_attention',
diff --git a/modules/ui_model_menu.py b/modules/ui_model_menu.py
index 6cda7ecd..d240bb6a 100644
--- a/modules/ui_model_menu.py
+++ b/modules/ui_model_menu.py
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ def create_ui():
                             shared.gradio['threads_batch'] = gr.Slider(label="threads_batch", minimum=0, step=1, maximum=256, value=shared.args.threads_batch)
                             shared.gradio['wbits'] = gr.Dropdown(label="wbits", choices=["None", 1, 2, 3, 4, 8], value=shared.args.wbits if shared.args.wbits > 0 else "None")
                             shared.gradio['groupsize'] = gr.Dropdown(label="groupsize", choices=["None", 32, 64, 128, 1024], value=shared.args.groupsize if shared.args.groupsize > 0 else "None")
-                            shared.gradio['pre_layer'] = gr.Slider(label="pre_layer", minimum=0, maximum=100, value=shared.args.pre_layer[0] if shared.args.pre_layer is not None else 0)
                             shared.gradio['gpu_split'] = gr.Textbox(label='gpu-split', info='Comma-separated list of VRAM (in GB) to use per GPU. Example: 20,7,7')
                             shared.gradio['max_seq_len'] = gr.Slider(label='max_seq_len', minimum=0, maximum=shared.settings['truncation_length_max'], step=256, info='Context length. Try lowering this if you run out of memory while loading the model.', value=shared.args.max_seq_len)
                             with gr.Blocks():