A couple of months ago, leaky capacitors caused me to ditch my epox 8k7a motherboard and replace it with an ecs n2u400-a. Before the switch, I was using a couple of utilities from this site to control the input from the Philips saa7108e chip on my videocard (the gain settings are far too high, especially on the s-video input, causing some really nasty image oversaturation. I'll post images soon). One of the utilities, called video live wdm, is a driver that allows access to the settings on the 7108 through another utility, the evip manager. Brightness, contrast, anti-aliasing and comb filters, manual gain/agc, ntsc (-m and -j), pal, and many other usually inaccessible chip features can be adjusted or set; after the motherboard switch, though, I have been trying fruitlessly to get the setup to work again. After experimenting with seemingly endless versions of nvidia/gainward display and vivo drivers, checking motherboard settings, and changing the installation and reboot sequence, I had no luck gaining access to the chip registers - the evip manager comes up, but the sliders are all at zero and the radio buttons are set to the first choices, and trying to move the sliders or click the radio buttons is a waste of effort. I have even tried contacting the author of the software, Igor Lookin, but as yet (nearly three weeks) I have not received a response. I fear that there may possibly be a language barrier involved, so I was hoping one of you may be able to help me out: has anyone with a similar rig to mine been able to run the video live i/o + evip manager successfully? How did you do it? What version of the display/wdm/motherboard drivers are you using? Failing that, what capture card would you recommend? BTW, I usually capture either uncompressed or with Huffyuv, and HD space is not an issue.