diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index 6acecf3a..22d35584 100644
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -155,34 +155,27 @@ def aria2_hook(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, force_download=False, cache_d
                 raise EnvironmentError("You specified use_auth_token=True, but a huggingface token was not found.")
     _cache_dir = str(cache_dir) if cache_dir is not None else transformers.TRANSFORMERS_CACHE
     sharded = False
+    headers = {"user-agent": transformers.file_utils.http_user_agent(user_agent)}
+    if use_auth_token:
+        headers["authorization"] = f"Bearer {use_auth_token}"
+    def is_cached(url):
+        try:
+            transformers.file_utils.get_from_cache(url, cache_dir=cache_dir, local_files_only=True)
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            return False
+        return True
     while True:  # Try to get the huggingface.co URL of the model's pytorch_model.bin or pytorch_model.bin.index.json file
         try:
             filename = transformers.modeling_utils.WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME if sharded else transformers.modeling_utils.WEIGHTS_NAME
         except AttributeError:
             return
         url = transformers.file_utils.hf_bucket_url(pretrained_model_name_or_path, filename, revision=revision, mirror=mirror)
-        try:
-            transformers.file_utils.get_from_cache(url, cache_dir=cache_dir, force_download=force_download, proxies=proxies, resume_download=resume_download, local_files_only=local_files_only, use_auth_token=use_auth_token, user_agent=user_agent)
-        except transformers.file_utils.RepositoryNotFoundError:
-            raise EnvironmentError(
-                f"{pretrained_model_name_or_path} is not a local folder and is not a valid model identifier "
-                "listed on 'https://huggingface.co/models'\nIf this is a private repository, make sure to pass a "
-                "token having permission to this repo with `use_auth_token` or log in with `huggingface-cli "
-                "login` and pass `use_auth_token=True`."
-            )
-        except transformers.file_utils.RevisionNotFoundError:
-            raise EnvironmentError(
-                f"{revision} is not a valid git identifier (branch name, tag name or commit id) that exists for "
-                "this model name. Check the model page at "
-                f"'https://huggingface.co/{pretrained_model_name_or_path}' for available revisions."
-            )
-        except transformers.file_utils.EntryNotFoundError:
-            if sharded:
-                return
-            else:
-                sharded = True
-        else:
+        if is_cached(url) or requests.head(url, allow_redirects=True, proxies=proxies, headers=headers):
             break
+        if sharded:
+            return
+        else:
+            sharded = True
     if not sharded:  # If the model has a pytorch_model.bin file, that's the only file to download
         filenames = [transformers.modeling_utils.WEIGHTS_NAME]
     else:  # Otherwise download the pytorch_model.bin.index.json and then let aria2 download all the pytorch_model-#####-of-#####.bin files mentioned inside it
@@ -191,20 +184,11 @@ def aria2_hook(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, force_download=False, cache_d
             map_data = json.load(f)
         filenames = set(map_data["weight_map"].values())
     urls = [transformers.file_utils.hf_bucket_url(pretrained_model_name_or_path, n, revision=revision, mirror=mirror) for n in filenames]
-    def is_cached(url):
-        try:
-            transformers.file_utils.get_from_cache(url, cache_dir=cache_dir, local_files_only=True)
-        except FileNotFoundError:
-            return False
-        return True
     if not force_download:
         if all(is_cached(u) for u in urls):
             return
         elif local_files_only:
             raise FileNotFoundError("Cannot find the requested files in the cached path and outgoing traffic has been disabled. To enable model look-ups and downloads online, set 'local_files_only' to False.")
-    headers = {"user-agent": transformers.file_utils.http_user_agent(user_agent)}
-    if use_auth_token:
-        headers["authorization"] = f"Bearer {use_auth_token}"
     etags = [h.get("X-Linked-Etag") or h.get("ETag") for u in urls for h in [requests.head(u, headers=headers, allow_redirects=False, proxies=proxies, timeout=10).headers]]
     filenames = [transformers.file_utils.url_to_filename(u, t) for u, t in zip(urls, etags)]
     if force_download:
@@ -215,6 +199,7 @@ def aria2_hook(pretrained_model_name_or_path: str, force_download=False, cache_d
     aria2_config = "\n".join(f"{u}\n  out={n}" for u, n in zip(urls, filenames)).encode()
     with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w+b", delete=True) as f:
         f.write(aria2_config)
+        f.flush()
         p = subprocess.Popen(["aria2c", "-x", "10", "-s", "10", "-j", "10", "-d", _cache_dir, "-i", f.name, "-U", transformers.file_utils.http_user_agent(user_agent)] + (["-c"] if not force_download else []) + ([f"--header='Authorization: Bearer {token}'"] if use_auth_token else []), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
         for line in p.stdout:
             print(line.decode(), end="", flush=True)