Intermittent audio issues in Windows8

Hello XBMC peoples,

I recently bought and installed and activated my copy of Windows 8 and am running XBMC 11 (Eden) on it and I am having intermittent audio issues.

About half the time my computer boots up from scratch into Windows8 and then I launch XBMC, I have no audio navigating around the XBMC menus and no audio coming from my media files.

I can ctrl-alt-delete and get into task manager, end the XBMC task, then re-launch and audio works perfectly.

Other times I boot up into Windows8 and launch XBMC I have no issues whatsoever.

I am assuming this is either a driver issue with Windows 8 and my onboard audio chipset or a bug in XBMC possibly? I am on the latest MB drivers already..

I had no audio issues while running XBMC on Linux so I know my hardware shouldn't be the problem...

Any others with similar issues or suggestions here?