Dear All, I recently joined the group and found the discussions are really helpful.I appreciate all your efforts. I am having a kernel streaming issue on vista.Its failing when i try to render the audio for soundmax card.The main issue is the pin not getting instantiated.I installed latest driver for soundmax for vista and tried but not helpful. Behaviour on XP: There is no issue on XP.The PIN was instantiated successfully with STANDARD STREAMING MODE.The instantiation is successful only with BASIC format but failed with EXTENDED format. Vista:The instantiation failed both with BASIC and EXTENDED formats with STANDARD STREAMING MODE on vista.Any thoughts why the PIN instantiation failed on vista with both formats.Is there anything i am missing in the initialisation. Observation:The instantiation is successful when i changed the mode from STANDARD STREAMING MODE to STANDARD LOOPING MODE.So does the vista driver supports LOOPING MODE and not STANDARD STREAMING MODE. It would be great and helpful if you guys can provide me your insights. Thanks Lokesh