diff --git a/notebooks/236-stable-diffusion-v2/236-stable-diffusion-v2-optimum-demo.ipynb b/notebooks/236-stable-diffusion-v2/236-stable-diffusion-v2-optimum-demo.ipynb
index 7a1b567b683..870dc24e788 100644
--- a/notebooks/236-stable-diffusion-v2/236-stable-diffusion-v2-optimum-demo.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/236-stable-diffusion-v2/236-stable-diffusion-v2-optimum-demo.ipynb
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
     "\n",
     "device = widgets.Dropdown(\n",
     "    options=ie.available_devices + [\"AUTO\"],\n",
-    "    value=\"AUTO\",\n",
+    "    value=\"CPU\",\n",
     "    description=\"Device:\",\n",
     "    disabled=False,\n",
     ")\n",
@@ -165,11 +165,12 @@
    "source": [
     "from optimum.intel.openvino import OVStableDiffusionPipeline\n",
     "\n",
-    "model_id = \"stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1-base\"\n",
-    "ov_pipe = OVStableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, export=True, compile=False)\n",
+    "# download the pre-converted SD v2.1 model from Hugging Face Hub\n",
+    "name = \"helenai/stabilityai-stable-diffusion-2-1-base-ov\"\n",
+    "ov_pipe = OVStableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(name, compile=False)\n",
     "ov_pipe.reshape(batch_size=1, height=512, width=512, num_images_per_prompt=1)\n",
     "ov_pipe.to(device.value)\n",
-    "ov_pipe.compile()\n"
+    "ov_pipe.compile()"
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -206,9 +207,12 @@
     }
    ],
    "source": [
-    "prompt = \"red car in snowy forest\"\n",
-    "output_ov = ov_pipe(prompt, num_inference_steps=17).images[0]\n",
-    "output_ov.save(\"image_ov_cpu.png\")\n",
+    "import gc\n",
+    "\n",
+    "# Generate an image. \n",
+    "prompt = \"red car in snowy forest, epic vista, beautiful landscape, 4k, 8k\"\n",
+    "output_ov = ov_pipe(prompt, num_inference_steps=17, output_type=\"pil\").images[0]\n",
+    "output_ov.save(\"image.png\")\n",
     "output_ov"
    ]
   },