Steppers don't turn

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scgtrp
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Steppers don't turn

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I've just built a Rostock Max V2. The heaters and the extruder motor appear to work, but the other three motors don't even attempt to turn.

Things I've tried:
- Repeatedly turning it off and on again.
- Moving it via every method I could think of (the movement and homing buttons in Pronterface, the LCD menus, manually typing G0 lines into the console, telekinesis). None of these worked.
- Flipping one of the motor connectors.
- Swapping one of the axis motors with the extruder. The axis motor turns; the extruder motor doesn't. I'd think this was a bad stepper driver, but 3 of them on the same board?
- The endstops are all reported low by M119 and change to high when I press them manually.

I also had to replace the included 450W power supply with a 350W one borrowed from my old printer, because the included one wouldn't power on. I don't think that's it, though, since one of the motors does work (also, I don't know the power requirements of those motors but I'm pretty sure it's not >350W each).

I have the "different" motor connectors mentioned on page 194 of the assembly guide, in case that's relevant.

Suggest other things to try?
scgtrp
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Re: Steppers don't turn

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Never mind, fixed.

For anyone who shows up here searching: I compiled the firmware with Arduino 1.5 instead of 1.0. Not sure why that fixed it, but it did. (Not mixing up the Y and Z axes made it work even better.)
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Re: Steppers don't turn

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scgtrp wrote:Never mind, fixed.

For anyone who shows up here searching: I compiled the firmware with Arduino 1.5 instead of 1.0. Not sure why that fixed it, but it did. (Not mixing up the Y and Z axes made it work even better.)
I am glad that you got it fixed. Telling us the solution helps everyone, thanks!
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