After so many googles like versions and no support for GPU (tensorflow-gpu) gone and advise for native installs, I got the best response that works. i.e

pip install tensorflow[and-cuda] update: its a very long install and i will test and update later .

Note: however i am using 12.4 toolkit (and don't install CUSTOM , choose EXPRESS - overwrites driver) and 12.4 pytorch as its the max supported (https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu124)