Hey. Yes you can add a 32gb stick. And I extend my desktop ina triple monitor setup daily. It handles it with ease.

Hey, sorry this reply took so long. I Didn’t catch the email when it first showed up. If you still need to know, it is 2280.

Hey, I wish I could help but the touchpad went out on mine and I’ve yet to find a replacement. The only keyboard/touchpad parts I’ve been able to find are on ebay and it’s either just the metal frame or its the entire assembly in used condition for $300-500 which I refuse to pay. I contacted ASUS directly and they said they wont sell parts like that. You have to send your laptop in for service which also costs a fortune. Sorry man.

The most likely answer is that you maybe forgot to remove a screw. It is unlikely a taped down ribbon cable but not impossible. They would’ve needed it open far enough to get their hand in there to tape it. Is any of the keyboard coming free? Are you disassembling the same model as the one in the guide?

I never did the repaste but I found this video showing how to on a GX701 Zephyrus S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v... It is in Chinese but you can still follow it easily.

The product on that link has changed but I would use the $50 one depending on the SSD you buy.

Hey, sorry this reply took so long. I havent checked ifixit in a while. The enclosure worked fine for me. I only used it to clone my drive. Im not sure if it ran at full NVME speeds but it worked fine. I shopped around for quite a while because I wasnt sure what to buy because the drive that comes in the Zephyrus is keyed different than the Samsung (*original has 2 slots and Samsung has 1) even though they are both NVME. I took a chance on that enclosure and it worked.

Hi, I upgraded the SSD mainly for more storage space. The Samsung drive is faster but I did not notice any difference in load times or anything like that.

I considered that same 32gb stick. ASUS lists the laptop capable of up to 24gb of ram but upgrade websites sell the laptop with 40gb. So the 32 go can work I just don’t know if they had to update the bios to make it work. Just remember that you have 8 GB soldered to the board and if you put anything other than 8 GB in the slot you will lose dual channel mode. This will cause you to lose performance in games but game performance in activities that are taxing on memory. I actually switched mine back to the 8 GB stick after I did these upgrades.

I used an external m.2 enclosure like the one I’ll link below and the free maxium reflect software to clone my existing drive. Once the swap is completed you can use the enclosure with your old ssd as an external drive if you want. https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-NGFF-Alum...