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90% of the time folks have recently left Rotary Mode engaged in Laser tools.

If you’ve recently used a Rotary tool, or unintentionally activated this mode, please shut it off by clicking Laser Tools - and switching the Enable Rotary switch to the off position.

If it’s something else, we’ll take the next steps.

The next thing to check is system settings.

With a GRBL engraver you can often get the System settings.
With LightBurn running and your laser engraver on and connected to LightBurn please enter the following request into the Console window in LightBurn:
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then press enter.

Please copy and paste that report into a reply here.

The X-Axis and Y-Axis often have the same type of electric stepper motor and same type of drive belt. Most often the motion information in the controller is the same for each axis.