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Are there any EXPTIME-COMPLETE problems that cannot be proven to be PSPACE-COMPLETE?

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No one knows. While it is conjectured that PSPACE $\ne$ EXPTIME, no one has any proof. In other words, it is consistent with all of our state of knowledge that PSPACE = EXPTIME. In particular:

  1. If PSPACE = EXPTIME, then every EXPTIME-complete problem is also PSPACE-complete.

  2. If PSPACE $\ne$ EXPTIME, then every EXPTIME-complete problem is not PSPACE-complete.

No one knows which of those two cases is true.

See, e.g., Why do we believe that PSPACE ≠ EXPTIME?.

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