Laptop BitLocker recovery screen showing incorrect characters

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The text on the recovery screen is garbled or in the wrong language.

Symptoms
  • Garbled text
  • Wrong language
  • Unreadable screen
Possible Causes
  • BIOS font issue
  • Language pack error
  • GPU glitch

Step-by-Step Fix

1

Update BIOS

Fixes rendering of pre-boot text.

2

Reset Language

In Windows, use "bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US" (or your language).

3

Check External Monitor

Sometimes the internal screen glitches but external works.

When to See a Technician

Garbled text at the BitLocker screen is almost always a BIOS/UEFI firmware bug.

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