title: Can't connect to SQLEXPRESS
body: <p>I have had lots of problems with SQL servers and have found a lot of solutions to any of my problems, but now it's something new. I have SQLEXPRESS running, but, when I connect, it says timeout. If I change the timeout period from 15 to 30, then after connecting 5s, the application becomes not responding and nothing else happens. The interesting part is, that everything was fine, I did not turn off the server and neither restarted the computer. It kind of happened from nowhere. Also I have firewall problem, that might somehow be related to SQL problem, because it happened almost at the same time. I have snap in problem and I can't see anything there. I am running windows server 2012 R2.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be highly appreciated, like any suggestions will work.
  Also this might be pretty interesting to fix, since this is not the usual problem. If more information is needed, please ask in comments.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>The actual error is fallowing : </p>
  
  <h2>TITLE: Connect to Server</h2>
  
  <p>Cannot connect to INSTANCE-1\SQLEXPRESS.</p>
  
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  <p>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:</p>
  
  <p>Connection Timeout Expired.  The timeout period elapsed while attempting to consume the pre-login handshake acknowledgement.  This could be because the pre-login handshake failed or the server was unable to respond back in time.  The duration spent while attempting to connect to this server was - [Pre-Login] initialization=20002; handshake=0;  (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: -2)</p>
  
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  <p>The wait operation timed out</p>