Not able to install any piece of SQL server 2012 dev edition on my windows 7

I have tried everything i can think f to install SQL 2012 but no luck I am getting these errors but after looking through the logs I can't find the actual cause to get a solution.

every feature gives me this error in the summary:

Detailed results:
Feature: Management Tools - Complete
Status: Failed: see logs for details
Reason for failure: An error occurred for a dependency of the feature causing the setup process for the feature to fail.
Next Step: Use the following information to resolve the error, and then try the setup process again.

There is not information to resolve the error!

here is the last few lines from detail.txt about the installation:


(01) 2012-09-19 15:35:07 Slp: Condition is false because the required
feature SQL_SNAC_SDK_sqlncli_Cpu64 failed in result Result (01)
2012-09-19 15:35:07 Slp: Action
"ConfigEvent_SQL_PowerShell_Tools_ANS_sql_ssms_Cpu64_Install_Finalize_finalize"
will return false due to the following conditions: (01) 2012-09-19
15:35:07 Slp: Condition "Feature dependency condition for action:
ConfigEvent_SQL_PowerShell_Tools_ANS_sql_ssms_Cpu64_Install_Finalize_finalize
The condition tests feature: SQL_PowerShell_Tools_ANS_sql_ssms_Cpu64.
There are 2 dependant features. The feature is tested for results:
ValidateResult, Result, CleanupResult." did not pass as it returned
false and true was expected. (01) 2012-09-19 15:35:07 Slp: Condition
is false because the required feature SQL_SSMS_Adv_sql_ssms_Cpu64
failed in result Result (01) 2012-09-19 15:35:07 Slp: Action
"ConfigEvent_SQL_SSMS_Full_sql_tools_Cpu64_Install_Finalize_finalize"
will return false due to the following conditions: (01) 2012-09-19
15:35:07 Slp: Condition "Feature dependency condition for action:
ConfigEvent_SQL_SSMS_Full_sql_tools_Cpu64_Install_Finalize_finalize
The condition tests feature: SQL_SSMS_Full_sql_tools_Cpu64. There are
4 dependant features.

I had a similar isssue - Win7SP1, VS2010SP1, SQL2008R2, Powershell 2 etc. Every prerequisite was there and still SQL Server 2012 Developers edition did not install. Completing with the following error message for most of the features:

Feature:                       Database Engine Services
  Status:                        Failed: see logs for details
  Reason for failure:            An error occurred for a dependency of the feature causing the setup process for the feature to fail.
  Next Step:                     Use the following information to resolve the error, and then try the setup process again.

I did analysis on details.txt and figured that failure started with the following line:

Error: Action "Install_sqlncli_Cpu64_Action" failed during execution.

I figured it had something to do with "SQL Server 2012 Native Client". I think I had it installed with Azure SDK or something like this. So, I uninstalled it and re-ran SQL Server 2012 installer and it completed successfully!

Hope this helps.

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