Dual Mornitors with on-board VGA and another AGP Video Card, Is it OK?

[wzyzy]

Hi, I have two monitors, and I want to run dual monitors (show different screen on two)
I know there's several options like using a dual head video card or AGP + PCI video card.
but no one mensioned if It's Ok with on-board VGA and a AGP video card.

I am using Asus A7N266 Motherboard which has a good on-board video and
also offers a AGP slot. I don't want to disnable the on-board video because it's very good
and I dont like PCI video cards.

So is it possible to add an APG video card and let it work together with the on-board VGA
and thus support dual monitors under windows xp

don't know if sb. did this. I appreciate your advice.

 

[powerMarkymark]

IMHO the answer would be no. Check with your Mobo manufacturer but my guess would be that you have to choose which AGP to use, onboard or slot.

 

[Peter]

You cannot have two AGP devices at the same time. So it's either the add-on or the integrated one. What you can do is add a PCI card, these can coexist with whatever AGP thing is active. (Note: Most GeForce PCI cards fail in that regard.)

regards, Peter

 

[Torghn]

The brand new ATI chipsets will do it, but any other that uses the AGP bus you're out of luck.