diff --git a/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/Cuda/CudaProvider.cs b/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/Cuda/CudaProvider.cs
index 5f76bec2..a0d80a04 100644
--- a/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/Cuda/CudaProvider.cs
+++ b/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/Cuda/CudaProvider.cs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // http://numerics.mathdotnet.com
 // http://github.com/mathnet/mathnet-numerics
 //
-// Copyright (c) 2009-2016 Math.NET
+// Copyright (c) 2009-2018 Math.NET
 //
 // Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
 // obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.Providers.Common.Cuda
         {
             if (!_loaded)
             {
-                throw new InvalidOperationException();
+                return "Nvidia CUDA (not loaded)";
             }
 
             var parts = new List<string>();
diff --git a/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/Mkl/MklProvider.cs b/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/Mkl/MklProvider.cs
index 935ad81c..fb789bf7 100644
--- a/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/Mkl/MklProvider.cs
+++ b/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/Mkl/MklProvider.cs
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.Providers.Common.Mkl
         {
             if (!_loaded)
             {
-                throw new InvalidOperationException();
+                return "Intel MKL (not loaded)";
             }
 
             var parts = new List<string>();
diff --git a/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/OpenBlas/OpenBlasProvider.cs b/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/OpenBlas/OpenBlasProvider.cs
index ee0497a0..12ea2e70 100644
--- a/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/OpenBlas/OpenBlasProvider.cs
+++ b/src/Numerics/Providers/Common/OpenBlas/OpenBlasProvider.cs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // http://numerics.mathdotnet.com
 // http://github.com/mathnet/mathnet-numerics
 //
-// Copyright (c) 2009-2016 Math.NET
+// Copyright (c) 2009-2018 Math.NET
 //
 // Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
 // obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ namespace MathNet.Numerics.Providers.Common.OpenBlas
         {
             if (!_loaded)
             {
-                throw new InvalidOperationException();
+                return "OpenBLAS (not loaded)";
             }
 
             var parts = new List<string>();