Windows 10: Windows 11 something happened and your PIN isn't available. Click to set up your PIN again.

Last night I shutdown my PC and it turned off. Immediately turned back on by itself but the screen was blank, I didn’t think much of it besides just unplugging the power supply because it was on for 3 minutes. I turned it back on the next day for it to immediately update the firmware and this time I I was able to see the screen progression, note before this I had no notification if this was going to be done when I shutdown my pc initially. After it was updated, my account pin did not work. In addition the only network options I have are airplane mode, that’s it, literally nothing besides the a

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Something happened and your PIN isn't available

Hello mate, *Smile You can see if the method in the tutorial below may help. It should be the same for Windows 10. Fix Something happened and your PIN isn't available on Windows 11 Tutorial | Windows 11 Forum

 

Something happened and your PIN isn't available. Click to set up your PIN again.

"Something happened and your PIN isn't available. Click to set up your PIN again". When I click on "setup PIN" it does nothing.

WIN 11 upgraded last night from WIN 10 by itself and now I can't get in to the PC. I only have one profile on the PC and I have tried a system fix in advanced options.

Does anyone have any suggestions?? Please help

 

Pin problem

Visit Fix “Something happened and your PIN isn’t available” in Windows 10
Fix “Something happened and your PIN isn’t available” in Windows 10 | Password Recovery
See if it’s helpful.

Included is this screen shot




Since you have a Microsoft account, you should see this instead
Microsoft account sign-in options




If this doesn't work, there are other procedures available to consider.
--- Some of them include registry changes.
--- Are you familiar with working in the registry?

BTW, have you saved your data along with a system image backup ready?