You are trying to see if it even gets as far as to boot to esphome?
If so, when it is in the “stuck” state, I am unable to get any logs. I pulled the 5v pin on a USB cable and gather logs that way. Nothing is visible during this issue.
Understood, you are thinking a board issue. I believe this may be the problem. I have 2 of the ESP32-S3 DEV boards. 1 with the ESPRESSIF logo on the ESP chip and one without it. The one with the logo is the one that is giving me issues.
I just swapped it for the “off” model and I will let it sit to see if the issue occurs.