I am trying to perform a clean install of server 2012 standard R2 from a server 2008 standard R2 OS. The OS is currently running on a supermicro server model: MBD-X9DR7-LN4F-O. I have the ISO on a USB drive and on a CD but both always fail to finish installing. I can boot into the server 2008 OS, start to install the server 2012 OS, it gets as far as "installing windows files. Your computer may restart a couple of times during this process." but after the first reboot it tries to boot from the installation media and fails. It acts like it is going to load then appears with the sad face, blue screen of death. The image disappears so fast that no error code appears. It will then go into a repetitious cycle of non-stop rebooting unless I manually shut it down and/or revert back to the server 2008 OS.
This server currently has no data on it for us to save so I have been told it is ok to format anything on it as it is pretty much a "test" server that we plan to migrate future data to as a backup. At this point I have formatted all RAID configurations and their respective data contents. I have tried running chkdisk and sfc just for the heck of it and nothing seems to help. I even performed another clean install of server 2008 standard R2 but all that did was make some of my drivers go missing to where I can't connect to the internet. This has been an endless struggle for over a week now and I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone has to offer. If you need anymore information from me I would be more than happy to supply it.
Thank you very much!
