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  Thread: Windows 2012 R2 Black Screen
Post: RE: Windows 2012 R2 Black Screen

NiKiZe, Taking the VM down to 1 CPU does the trick. I didn't try building a custom bcd as we'll be programmatically creating our VM's to pxe boot anyway. We'll just automatically increase the CPU c...
kristianreese General 5 13,553 2017-02-27, 03:30
  Thread: Windows 2012 R2 Black Screen
Post: RE: Windows 2012 R2 Black Screen

hah -- I wasn't expecting a reply so quickly. I was just about to post that because of your suggesting on adding the gui option, I came across http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=8115. Low &...
kristianreese General 5 13,553 2017-02-27, 00:22
  Thread: Windows 2012 R2 Black Screen
Post: RE: Windows 2012 R2 Black Screen

Thank you for the suggestions! You are correct in that I'm using PCBIOS mode and not EFI. Here is the behavior being experienced: http://kristianreese.com/windows.gif I tried as suggested with less...
kristianreese General 5 13,553 2017-02-26, 23:30
  Thread: Windows 2012 R2 Black Screen
Post: Windows 2012 R2 Black Screen

Hi Been scratching my head over an issue with attempting to install Windows 2012 R2. Using VMware ESXi 5.5, we've deployed a VM using VM version 10. It gets to the point of booting the WinPE client...
kristianreese General 5 13,553 2017-02-24, 21:38
  Thread: Dell 13G Server wimboot black screen
Post: RE: Dell 13G Server wimboot black screen

Hello Has there been a resolution for this issue? I'm encountering the same exact behavior in VMware on Version 10 hardware. Thanks
kristianreese General 15 48,504 2017-02-24, 21:28