I see, an oversight I made. Since I am using it in DIO mode with internal flash, it does free up GPIO 12 & 13, but the other 4 I cannot use.

I have been using both the ESP32-C3 Devkit and a custom board using the ESP32-C3FN4 (which has the SPI pins attached) I am attempting to use pins 19-24 (GPIO 12-17) as simply GPIO. Whenever I run my code to reconfigure the pins as GPIO, I get a looped boot with the serial output shown below. What ba...