So I finally got to working on this again today, and have got some interesting results.
I did the water test. I created a custom material profile set the temperature to 95C and chose that profile and then went to the move material option.
First of all the temperature overshoots by almost 15C pretty much every time. I let the temperature stabilize at 95C and then dropped a water droplet on it. Sure enough it boiled up and evaporated.
What i have done now is basically keep increasing the temperature slowly till the PLA begins to flow nicely the way its supposed too. The number I have landed on is 150C.
Is it possible the motherboard is damaged or can this really only be the thermocouple? Iv never run into a bad thermocouple which is why this is really weird to me.
On a side note does anyone have the original firmware file that the machine might have shipped with. I would love to revert back and see if for some reason that would solve the problem just to completely rule out any sort of firmware glitch.
Thanks!