T400: any possibility of upgrade graphics?

Hello everyone,
I was just wondering is there any possibility of upgrading the graphics card in my T400 to a 512Mb one?
Its currently running an ATI Radeon 3740HD 256Mb graphics card.
Is it possible that I can send the laptop back to Lenovo for an upgrade?
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Message Edited by Agotthelf on 24-05-2009 11:59 AM

Lenovo can't do it for you, also it is not the amount of vram that matters. It is the GPU itself that matters, your ATI gpu is probably already using 512 mb of your main ram for its hypermemory.... 
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