I’m here assuming the USB has been trimmed back to its minimal contents keyboard and mouse. RAM’s about the last easily swapped piece. The system attempted to boot to internet recovery, however failed with error "-3403D".Ĭould it be a RAM issue? Or maybe a CPU issue? I would doubt the CPU issue as the system had run fine for 9 years and was running 10.11.6 To use Apple Diagnostics.etc"īoth attempts also did not boot to apple diagnostics.
I have removed the Samsung SSD tonight and tried both a Kingston A400 480GB SSD and also a Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD.īoth attempts at a clean install on these with 10.13.6, I followed the below On no evidence, I’d swap the SSD for a different SSD or for a hard disk, and try the install again. Hard disk firmware tends to be a bit more mature, at least until we start talking about high-end and virtualizing storage controllers, though those are going all-flash. SSDs are creatures of ever-evolving firmware. Try relocating and accessing the SSD drive on Microsoft Windows from the Magician app (a USB drive sled is handy for this), or try accessing from a Mac or such with the portable SSD software app.
The Magician app is apparently only for Microsoft Windows, though there’s a portable SSD software bundle for Mac listed on that same page. Running a DDG web search for Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD firmware turns up some references to a Samsung Magician app, and a related download page with that tool and firmware. How would one check the firmware version of the SSD? I can only assume it's because the OS hasn't installed properly and therefore doesn't have the software for the diagnostics (this photos are from a clean installation attempt).Īs a starting point for an install that fails part way thru, I’d look at the storage. If that path is also flaky, then it’s probably the SSD that’s problematic. At least as far as accessing the contents of the SSD. Target Disk Mode might get past that, with a cable, and a second Mac. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to boot to the diagnostics after the install error.
If the date is bogus and you don't have a network connection, then you can also just set the date/time with the date command (do a "man date" to see the format for how to set date/time).
If it is bogus then "ntpdate -u " (again without quotes) will update the date/time from Apple's ntp server but this assumes you have an network interface connection to the internet. Which talks about starting a Terminal window before doing the install to check the system date (just type "date" in a Terminal window and see if it looks correct - no quotes on the command). Well, the last of the log file is complaining about a quartz frameworks file it couldn't load - it was located in /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/A/Quartz - the only thing I can think might have happened is the High Sierra download got corrupted during downloading, but perhaps someone else has some idea what else could cause this to happen.Īlso, since this is on an almost 10 year old laptop, is there a battery on the motherboard that might have gone bad so the date/time on the laptop is in some goofy state? I googled the message "installer resources have expired" and found several hits - e.g. The way that I have found that is consistently able to download full installers is to run installinstallmacos.py as per Of course as others have pointed out sometimes this results in only getting a 'stub' installer which is not suitable for then creating a bootable USB drive installer. Scroll down to item 4 in the above document. How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra - Apple Support There is an Apple KB article which however provides a direct link to the (hidden) item on the Mac App Store. It is not listed anymore because Apple are encouraging people to use Mojave instead.
In theory you download a full High Sierra installer from the Mac App Store. Whew, you did great for being new to the forums, Apple is the one lacking in info.Īre you getting the ~20MB stub Installer or the full ~5GB installer?