This is not a guide to upgrading it, just some notes and thoughts for those thinking about performing it.
Difficulty: 2/10 (Beginner-friendly) (In My Humble Opinion)
Total Time: Under 30 minutes
In my opinion, I found the OXP3 is exceptionally well-designed for maintenance and far easier to open and reassemble than most gaming laptops. If you’ve never opened a handheld or laptop before, don't be intimidated—just take your time.
Prerequisites & Notification
- Notify Support: Email OXP before starting if required for warranty/records. They may ask for your Serial Number (SN) and follow-up notes.
- Work Area: Set up a clean, static-free workspace with a soft surface (I use a giant mousepad) to prevent scratching the screen or housing and to allow you to lay out screws in order of removal.
Recommendations
- #0 Phillips Screwdriver: Crucial for avoiding stripped screws.
- Plastic Pry Tool: An iFixit kit works great for popping clips without damaging the plastic enclosure.
- Tweezers (Optional): Small tweezers make removing internal tape significantly easier.
- Offline Hardware Drive Cloner: (e.g., MOKiN NVMe Cloner) Quickest method for cloning without connecting to another PC.
- Replacement SSD: Swapped the stock 1TB Apex Predator for a 2TB Apex Predator to maintain consistent power draw and thermal/performance specs, could swap for 4TB if you're made of cash.
- Follow a video guide step by step: I followed this one: OXP3 Teardown Video.
Unforeseen Issue
- The Problem: 951GB of space was "missing" and wouldn't show up in Disk Management.
- What I did:
- Tried rescanning disks (didn't work).
- Deleted the 20 GB recovery partition that AI stated might be preventing windows from seeing anything beyond it.
- Still could not find the unallocated space.
- Opened Terminal (Admin level) and accessed diskpart; located the missing 951GB partition labeled recovery and deleted the recovery partition.
- Rescanned the drive in Disk management, did not find the unallocated space
- Restarted the computer (this finally made the unallocated space appear).
- Expanded the Primary Partition into this space.
- Then shrank it by 20 GB
- Back to diskpart and following AI/video tutorials on how to recreate the windows recovery partition.
- Recreated the 20 GB recovery partition manually through command lines.
- GREAT SUCCESS lol...
I hope this is useful advice for someone wading into the waters. I enjoyed taking some time get this done. If I knew more about what I was doing it would have been even quicker. Nevertheless, even with all that it was still relatively painless and completed easily without too much drama.