diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_component.yml b/.github/workflows/test_component.yml
index e9ef97043b4..929977e262b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_component.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_component.yml
@@ -186,8 +186,9 @@ jobs:
           # An empty GPU_ENABLE_PAL is misread as ROCr on Windows (atoi("")==0),
           # whose Windows memory path OOMs some tests (e.g. rocsparse bsr*0 graph_test).
           # Default unset components to the platform backend, mirroring the runtime fix
-          # in ROCm/rocm-systems#8050 (Windows -> PAL, Linux -> ROCr).
-          GPU_ENABLE_PAL: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.component).gpu_enable_pal || (inputs.platform == 'windows' && '1' || '0') }}
+          # in ROCm/rocm-systems#8050 (Windows -> Rocr, Linux -> ROCr).
+          # Change default to Rocr backend on Windows
+          GPU_ENABLE_PAL: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.component).gpu_enable_pal || '0' }}
           RETRY_THIS_STEP: "true"
           RETRY_COUNT: "1"
           RETRY_DELAY: "7"
diff --git a/build_tools/github_actions/fetch_test_configurations.py b/build_tools/github_actions/fetch_test_configurations.py
index 1181b329af3..d1394adb401 100644
--- a/build_tools/github_actions/fetch_test_configurations.py
+++ b/build_tools/github_actions/fetch_test_configurations.py
@@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ def run():
                     "total_shards": total_shards,
                     "test_type": test_type,
                     "shard_arr": shard_arr,
+                    "expect_failure": True,   # Non fatal- just for Info
                     "gpu_enable_pal": "1",
                 }
                 all_components.append(pal_entry)
@@ -844,7 +845,7 @@ def run():
                         "total_shards": total_shards,
                         "test_type": test_type,
                         "shard_arr": shard_arr,
-                        "expect_failure": True,
+                        "expect_failure": False, # Default and Fatal
                         "gpu_enable_pal": "0",
                     }
                     all_components.append(rocr_entry)
diff --git a/rocm-systems b/rocm-systems
index 03d8462e613..63477679d0d 160000
--- a/rocm-systems
+++ b/rocm-systems
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 03d8462e6138a63940ff2b6f025a046cceba0e07
+Subproject commit 63477679d0de0851646ad1b8a0b4dabeba86a590