neonwizard Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 Bear with me here, I’ll try to explain as best as I can. I recently did a clean install of Windows 11 Pro and got to the stage where I had to set up a PIN (no other option was given). Everything was okay from that point on. Today, I saw that a new NVIDIA driver was available, so I decided to do a clean driver install via msconfig (Safe Boot). I checked the box and restarted when prompted. After the restart, it asked for my which I thought was weird, type my PIN as required but it failed. No matter what I tried, I could not get in, and I ended up needing to reinstall Windows again. I’m just wondering if I did something wrong or if this is a known issue. Pin Error in Safe Boot Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1454633-pin-error-in-safe-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixion Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 I had that happen to me on an old PC, can't remember how now but I did find a guide to fix it at the time. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1454633-pin-error-in-safe-boot/#findComment-598986908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonwizard Posted May 13 Author Share Posted May 13 After seeing that you had the same error I did a search for PIN Error Safe Boot and found this on Reddit seems that it a known issue that has not been fixed buy Microsoft for a long time. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1454633-pin-error-in-safe-boot/#findComment-598986936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwd999 Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 I've had this happens in the past and gave up on Safe Boot as a result. Is the computer on wifi or ethernet? If its wifi this may be one of those situations where MS demands ethernet without bothering to tell you. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1454633-pin-error-in-safe-boot/#findComment-598986984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonwizard Posted May 13 Author Share Posted May 13 I was on ethernet when it happened, I was racking my brain for a fix but ended up doing a install. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1454633-pin-error-in-safe-boot/#findComment-598987008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
erpster3 Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 (edited) the small "PIN" and "password" icon images in the Safe mode welcome screen are "flipped" or switched around, than when booting in the normal mode welcome screen, regardless of using wifi or ethernet goretsky 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1454633-pin-error-in-safe-boot/#findComment-598987020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted May 14 Supervisor Share Posted May 14 Hello, Just to check, no hardware issues with the keyboard (missed or phantom keypresses, caps lock key on, etc.) that could have caused the wrong characters to be entered for the PIN? Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1454633-pin-error-in-safe-boot/#findComment-598987065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixion Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 From the reddit posts, if anyone lands here with this problem in future: Press shift and select restart then go to advanced settings then go to cmd then type bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot then exit from cd then continue to windows 11 u can login now goretsky 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1454633-pin-error-in-safe-boot/#findComment-598987068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonwizard Posted May 14 Author Share Posted May 14 I don’t think so. I reinstalled everything and set up the PIN again without any issues goretsky 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1454633-pin-error-in-safe-boot/#findComment-598987069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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