diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc
index bf3c1478d4229..b02a6c2f3c734 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/backends/basic_backend.cc
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ BasicBackend::BasicBackend(std::unique_ptr<ONNX_NAMESPACE::ModelProto>& model_pr
     auto auto_unified_compile = ((hw_target.find("AUTO") == std::string::npos) ||
                                  (session_context_.OpenVINO_Version.at(0) >= 2024 &&
                                   session_context_.OpenVINO_Version.at(1) > 2));
-    if (subgraph_context_.is_ep_ctx_graph && enable_causallm) {
+    if (subgraph_context_.is_ep_ctx_graph) {
       // If the blob is held in an EPContext node, then skip FE+Compile
       // and directly move on to creating a backend with the executable blob
       exe_network_ = OVCore::Get()->ImportModel(*model_stream,
diff --git a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/onnx_ctx_model_helper.cc b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/onnx_ctx_model_helper.cc
index 7bd4f8d96cc55..1faf2598780b7 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/onnx_ctx_model_helper.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/core/providers/openvino/onnx_ctx_model_helper.cc
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ bool EPCtxHandler::CheckForOVEPCtxNode(const Node& node) const {
   if (node.OpType() == EPCONTEXT_OP) {
     auto& attrs = node.GetAttributes();
     bool result = (attrs.count(SOURCE) == 1) && (attrs.at(SOURCE).s() == kOpenVINOExecutionProvider);
-    result &= (attrs.count(EP_SDK_VER) == 1) && (attrs.at(EP_SDK_VER).s() == openvino_sdk_version_);
+    // result &= (attrs.count(EP_SDK_VER) == 1) && (attrs.at(EP_SDK_VER).s() == openvino_sdk_version_);
     result &= attrs.count(EMBED_MODE) == 1;
     result &= attrs.count(EP_CACHE_CONTEXT) == 1;
     return result;