using integrated video with an agp card

[BobOmega]

i have a shuttle sng142 with the integrated ge4mx bios, and a 9800pro.
is it possible to use the integrated video with the agp card in?
i've looked around in the bios and in the manuals and didn't see anything. so i am kind of leaning towards a "can't be done" but you never know.
i know my agp is better, but i'm wanting to know in that rare case i might want to run 3 or 4 moniters.

thanks

[Gilthanaz]

Do you mean use the integrated and AGP card together at the same time? Or use the intergrated instead of the AGP. To do the latter you'd just remove or disable it in device manager and install the drivers for the on board. As far as using both, I'm not sure.

[DallasDon]

Had the same question a while back. It seems the onboard video shares the AGP bus, so when you plug in an AGP card, the onboard is disabled.

Multiple monitors work with onboard and PCI, AGP and PCI, but not onboard and AGP.

[BobOmega]

i mean use both at once.

edit beacuse there was only one reply when i replied
well, thats kind of what i was thinking but i wasn't sure for sure.. oh well

[Gilthanaz]

You could probably get a PCI video card pretty cheap and set up that multi monitor system if you wanted to.

[BobOmega]

if i ever had the need i would, except i alredy have my one pci slot filled with my tv tuner

[Peter M]

The integrated VGA is a pretend-AGP device. Now architecturally, one can't have two AGP devices in the same system. So the integrated one disappears as soon as you plug an actual AGP card. If you plug a PCI card, it'll stay.

The exception is ATi's latest IGP chipsets - these morph the integrated VGA into a pretend-PCI device when you plug an AGP card.