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Right, I did upgrade the board to 2.4.7 silent board already. So if I switch the X and Y cables completely rather than just switching them at the board I should have Y axis fail rather than X if it is infact the cables. The fact that even when I plug X into Y and Y into X at the board, X still failing tells me its not the board, its something between the board and the motor. Am I on the right track here?

X failed again, so it is an overheating of the motor problem? Next I should lower the current going to the X axis?

I found that my fan was not running so I wired it in to always be cooling the board, attempted a print and failed again. When I send M503, I don't get a M906 line back I get the following: Send: M503 Recv: echo: G21 ; Units in mm (mm) Recv: echo: M149 C ; Units in Celsius Recv: Recv: echo:; Steps per unit: Recv: echo: M92 X80.00 Y80.00 Z800.00 E102.15 Recv: echo:; Maximum feedrates (units/s): Recv: echo: M203 X500.00 Y500.00 Z10.00 E50.00 Recv: echo:; Maximum Acceleration (units/s2): Recv: echo: M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z100.00 E5000.00 Recv: echo:; Acceleration (units/s2): P<print_accel> R<retract_accel> T<travel_accel> Recv: echo: M204 P500.00 R1000.00 T500.00 Recv: echo:; Advanced: B<min_segment_time_us> S<min_feedrate> T<min_travel_feedrate> X<max_x_jerk> Y<max_y_jerk> Z<max_z_jerk> E<max_e_jerk> Recv: echo: M205 B20000.00 S0.00 T0.00 X8.00 Y8.00 Z0.40 E5.00 Recv: echo:; Auto Bed Leveling: Recv: echo: M420 S0 Recv: echo: G29 W I0 J0 Z0.03875 Recv: echo: G29 W I1 J0 Z-0.01325 Recv: echo: G29 W I2 J0 Z0.04175 Recv: echo: G29 W I0 J1 Z0.04525 Recv: echo: G29 W I1 J1 Z-0.01025 Recv: echo: G29 W I2 J1 Z0.03450 Recv: echo: G29 W I0 J2 Z-0.00675 Recv: echo: G29 W I1 J2 Z-0.05575 Recv: echo: G29 W I2 J2 Z-0.04050 Recv: echo:; Material heatup parameters: Recv: echo: M145 S0 H200 B60 F0 Recv: echo: M145 S1 H240 B100 F0 Recv: echo:; PID settings: Recv: echo: M301 P28.72 I2.62 D78.81 Recv: echo:; Z-Probe Offset (mm): Recv: echo: M851 X-44.00 Y-16.00 Z-2.72 Recv: echo:; Filament load/unload lengths: Recv: echo: M603 L0.00 U100.00 I am running the TMC2225's.

There is a fan here but its not spinning when the power is on, should it always be running?

Oh boy, sounds like you hit the nail on the head. Ill look into the fan and what could be going on under there and report back. Thank you so much for your advice so far, brings much clarity.

Yes your exactly right with the no more X axis movements, thing is when I start a new print its works just fine for the first few layers. I just tried a calibration cube with Cura's default standard settings and it failed again, while failing I could easily move the X axis back and forth, I powered off and moved the X axis again hitting a snag. I think my BLtouch was deployed (it does that test every time it powers on or off) and I bent it against the print (FML). Do you think the BL is getting in the way? Or that may have just been impatience on my part because the second I switched the power off I started moving X.

Hello everyone! I am in a constant battle with my Ender 5 (I hope I'm not the only one that feels like this at the beginning). Although every issue I have I gain a better understanding so that the fun part. My latest problem was I could not get a calibration cube to print right and after just letting it finish I realized I had the wrong lead screw enabled in the firmware. I enabled the new lead screw and the cube printed really well. After that I printed a simple toothpaste squeezer and it worked fine, I then tried to print 2 boxes with curved tops and 9 toothpaste squeezers all of which were separate STL's that I put in 1 Cura project. Around layer 20 one of the squeezers was messed up and puking filament everywhere. I tried to salvage the print by removing the trouble part and tried to continue the print but nothing really worked so I cancelled the whole thing. I then looked at my BL touch data and was trying to make sure it was actually giving accurate mesh data, I spend a good amount of time trying to figure out why is was so inconsistent and realized I need to G28 before G29 for consistent results. I also tightened the spacer on the Y axis extruder side wheels as there was some play in the X axis when I used my hand to try and rotate the hotend assembly up and down. After doing that I ran G28 & G29 then adjusted my Z offset before attempting the next print. I wanted to attempt the same print as before just much smaller scale, so I tried the same 2 curved box stl's and 1 squeezer stl and around layer 7 this happened There isn't supposed to be a line through there so I am not sure what the printer thought it was doing, the same sort of thing caused the big print to fail but I didn't catch it this early. It looks like it just decided to start pouring out filament for some reason and start to draw a line that shouldn't be there So here is the hardware/software I am using: Creality Ender 5 Silent Board V4.2.7 (Upgrade) NEMA 17 stepper damper on Y axis TL Smoother on Z axis BLTouch 3.1 .4 Nozzle Printed bed support Glass bed Raspberry Pi 3B+ (Ethernet connection) th3d unified 2.22 Cura 4.8.0 OctoPrint Mech Solutions PLA 1.75 Cura settings: Layer Height .2 Initial Layer Height .3 Wall Thickness .8 Wall Line Coun 2 Top/Bottom Thickness .9 Top/Bottom Layers 5 Infill Density 2% Infill Line Distance 40mm Pattern Grid Overlap % 20 Printing Temp 197 Printing Temp Initial Layer 205 Bed Temp 60 Print Speed 40 Top/Bottom Speed 20 Travel Speed 120 Initial Layer Speed 20 Skirt Speed 20 Accel control nothing over 1000 Jerk control 9 or less except travel is 10 Retraction Distance 6mm Retraction Speed 40 Combing mode All Avoid printed parts / supports when traveling Z hop height .2 I spin the spool out by hand every once in awhile so the extruder isn't having to pull the weight of the spool as it goes. I read somewhere that when its having to pull the whole spool it could lead to inconsistent spooling. Here is the Gcode that I used, not sure if that helps at all. https://www.dropbox.com/s/lndgjr289x6mmju/resttestsand1toothpaste.gcode?dl=0 I then calibrated the Extruder stepper, realized it was under extruding 7mm. I made the adjustment so when it is being asked to extrude 100mm it is bang on now. I attempted a print and this is what happened I thought now oh its because the infill cant support the top of the print that's why it failed so I did the exact same print with 15% infill instead of 2%. It failed almost right away...