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Windows Server 2012 installed fine but after installing Hyper-V role Server fails to bootwith error:

Your PC needs to restart
Please hold down the power button
Error code: 0x0000005
...

Has anyone else experienced this?

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closed as not a real question by Brent Pabst, Scott Pack, John Gardeniers, growse, jscott Oct 31 '12 at 16:35

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From searching the internet this appears to be a stop code. 2012 and Win8 use a new hard fault error message display. You need to start the standard hardware troubleshooting. Nothing we can do to help without additional information.

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So how do I go about standard hardware troubleshooting in Server 2012. Have tried last known good configuration and all of the other F8 recovery options but none work. – NickC Oct 30 '12 at 14:22
Update: safe mode has started working, will try and see what Event logs reveal – NickC Oct 30 '12 at 15:22
Nope, nothing in event logs. Even boot logging show nothing, ntbtlog.txt gets created but is only 2 bytes logs. – NickC Oct 30 '12 at 16:21
There is really nothing else I can do to help you, nor anyone else for that matter. Your original question does not have any details as to the hardware, the state prior to the error, the state prior to installing 2012, etc, etc. Provide more detail. – Brent Pabst Oct 30 '12 at 16:52
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5, CPU: AMD Phenom X6 1055T Machine runs Server 2003 & Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V fine. Just 2012 with Hyper-V which refuses to boot. – NickC Oct 30 '12 at 17:16
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