3 external monitors + built in LCD Problem

Hi Everyone first the setup:
W540 docked to the ultra docking station
has the nvidia K1100M card
Monitor 1: VGA to the back of the ultra docking station
Monitor 2: HDMI to the back of the ultra docking station
Monitor 3: DVI to the back of the ultra docking station
When I try to enable the built in LCD it will turn off one of the other monitors. There isn't a specific one just takes away from one of them. 
Is there a way to get the Built in LCD to be active with the other three monitors?
All graphics drivers are up to date. Bios is updated and the Docking port Firmware is up to date. 
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. 

dont think its possible:
I asked at bottom here....
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Three-external-monitors-own-LCD-in-W540-with-n...
I found this myself in the W540 manual: "For the ThinkPad Ultra Dock, if you connect two displays to the DisplayPort connector and the DVI
connector, the DVI connector is inactive.
For the ThinkPad Ultra Dock, if you connect two displays to the DisplayPort connector and the HDMI
connector, the HDMI connector is inactive."
Kinda stupid the MiniDock allows it in their older models, but the newer UltraDock doesn't?
I've only been able to get 2 external monitors and the monitor display working. 
Might be able to get daisy chaining working to get >3 monitors as I mentioned at bottom of thread, but seems much more expensive (cheapest is that eVGA hub but have to have DisplayPort monitors)

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