Hi all,
Am having no luck installing 2012 RC0. The error I am getting is consistent no matter what I have tried. The problem always occurs right after picking any option that requires the installer look inside my system to figure out what's there and what has to be done next e.g. Installation > New SQL Server Standalone.... Somewhere within that common inspection / configuration routine a character comes up that my system falls over on.
TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure.
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SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error:
'.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 817.
Error code 0x84B10001.
For help, click:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&EvtType=0x066FCAFD%25400x5539C151
System Details
- OS: Win 7 Ultimate SP1
- No Denali beta bits on the machine (never were)
- .NET 3.5 SP1 is installed (.NET 4.0 also installed)
- Installed extra patch for .NET 3.5 SP1 for Win 7 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=958488
- Removed all SQL 2008 R2 bits (just to be sure)
- Reinstalled Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Other stuff I've done:
- Downloaded the 2012 bits twice
- Extracted contents of the ISO into a physical directory and executed from there.
Same error every time.
Just to be sure it was a 2012 thing I tried running the SQL 2008 R2 installer and it ran past the point where I get the 2012 error without a hitch.
There is something in the 2012 installer that requires bits my system just does not have to handle that hex character as it should. All I can think of is that there is some form of hotfix / QFE that I have not applied and that is what is causing the hexadecimal value error I keep getting.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Nick
http://nickbarclay.blogspot.com