Last night as I was trying to upgrade the BIOS of my Samsung X360 laptop, I got a “Loading driver failed. Restart system” error. I searched the entire internet and found a fix that suggested I should install Samsung Update Plus, which didn’t work. I was trying to flash from Windows 7 (32 bit) and I had a feeling that this tiny program wasn’t made to run under this OS.

Ultimately I decided to run the BIOS update program in Compatibility Mode. I right clicked it and Windows proposed to run the BIOS update in Windows XP SP2 Compatibility Mode. Yikes! It sounds scary and it ran way slower than I expected, but it worked and I got my update.