diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/configure.sh b/cluster/gce/gci/configure.sh
index ecbd3a0e6ce..18a706cbd0c 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/gci/configure.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/gci/configure.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ set -o pipefail
 DEFAULT_CNI_VERSION='v0.9.1'
 DEFAULT_CNI_HASH='b5a59660053a5f1a33b5dd5624d9ed61864482d9dc8e5b79c9b3afc3d6f62c9830e1c30f9ccba6ee76f5fb1ff0504e58984420cc0680b26cb643f1cb07afbd1c'
 DEFAULT_NPD_VERSION='v0.8.8'
-DEFAULT_NPD_HASH='ba8315a29368bfc33bdc602eb02d325b0b80e295c8739da35616de5b562c372bd297a2553f3ccd4daaecd67698b659b2c7068a2d2a0b9418ad29233fb75ff3f2'
+DEFAULT_NPD_HASH_AMD64='ba8315a29368bfc33bdc602eb02d325b0b80e295c8739da35616de5b562c372bd297a2553f3ccd4daaecd67698b659b2c7068a2d2a0b9418ad29233fb75ff3f2'
+# TODO (SergeyKanzhelev): fill up for npd 0.8.9+
+DEFAULT_NPD_HASH_ARM64='N/A'
 DEFAULT_CRICTL_VERSION='v1.21.0'
 DEFAULT_CRICTL_HASH='e4fb9822cb5f71ab8f85021c66170613aae972f4b32030e42868fb36a3bc3ea8642613df8542bf716fad903ed4d7528021ecb28b20c6330448cd2bd2b76bd776'
 DEFAULT_MOUNTER_TAR_SHA='7956fd42523de6b3107ddc3ce0e75233d2fcb78436ff07a1389b6eaac91fb2b1b72a08f7a219eaf96ba1ca4da8d45271002e0d60e0644e796c665f99bb356516'
@@ -238,6 +240,18 @@ function install-gci-mounter-tools {
 
 # Install node problem detector binary.
 function install-node-problem-detector {
+  if [[ "${HOST_ARCH}" == "amd64" ]]; then
+    DEFAULT_NPD_HASH=${DEFAULT_NPD_HASH_AMD64}
+  elif [[ "${HOST_ARCH}" == "arm64" ]]; then
+    DEFAULT_NPD_HASH=${DEFAULT_NPD_HASH_ARM64}
+  else
+    # no other architectures are supported currently.
+    # Assumption is that this script only runs on linux,
+    # see cluster/gce/windows/k8s-node-setup.psm1 for windows
+    # https://github.com/kubernetes/node-problem-detector/releases/
+    DEFAULT_NPD_HASH='N/A'
+  fi
+
   if [[ -n "${NODE_PROBLEM_DETECTOR_VERSION:-}" ]]; then
       local -r npd_version="${NODE_PROBLEM_DETECTOR_VERSION}"
       local -r npd_hash="${NODE_PROBLEM_DETECTOR_TAR_HASH}"