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vkeegan
Copper Contributor
Sep 12, 2025

PIN reset in windows 11 after motherboard change

Hello hoping someone can help me, I have changed motherboard, entered the bitlocker key and now can’t login to my windows credentials as it’s wanting me to reset my pin but when I click send me a reset code via my email I don’t receive anything.

Has anyone ever encountered this? I would usually do a fresh install when swapping motherboard but it unexpected died and so didn’t have chance to back my files up.

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    Zachariahh
    Iron Contributor

    If you can access your drive via another PC or boot into recovery mode, consider temporarily suspending or decrypting BitLocker.

  • JacobBrown's avatar
    JacobBrown
    Iron Contributor

    You can try logging in directly at the sign-in screen using your Microsoft account password.

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