Can't get SQL Server to start or connect to my local database engine through SSMS

Question

SQL Server has been working fine but since Friday I have not been able to connect to the database engine in SSMS. This coincided with my having to power the laptop off durin

Answer 1

I know it's probably too late to help with the original poster, but we had this same issue and nothing we tried resolved the problem. Finally, we opened a technical incident with Microsoft and this is the solution that we were provided:

• Take backup of below registry key.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\MachineGuid This key should ideally have the GUID of the machine without curly braces, so {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx} becomes xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

• Then delete the braces.
• Try to reboot and start the SQL service . If service don’t start then Uninstall and reinstall SQL.

The above solution worked on two separate machines exhibiting this problem.