I did something similar after making this post. I considered it a bit of a risk. But I bridged after the resistor GPIO9 (R12 in the schematic) to ground with tweezers and managed to load firmware into it. After specifying Interface 0 to be the upload port. So technically in a way, the problem got so...

Hi all, I have been trying to solve an issue for the past few days with little to no change in my results. For context , this is my second batch of these custom esp32 c3 boards. The first batch had a small hurdle where I had to play with the drivers in zadig, and plug in the esp32 boards when my vi...