[SOLVED] Stepper motors not showing any sign of life

Hey everyone, glad to be joining this community.

Issue: can't manage to get the motors moving or holding position (basically they are in the same state as when powered off)

I've recently bought some used material to start building my first CNC and today I ran into some issues testing the electronics.
I'm sure that everything is in working condition because the previous owner showed me the motors working although he was using MACH3.

I've installed LinuxCNC on an old desktop computer that had a parallel port without any issues. Hooked up the parallel cable and USB cable that came with the electronics, leaving all the pre-existing connections between the BoB, drivers and motors untouched.
Then I ran the StepConf Wizard, changed units, selected "other" for the driver type (leaving all the default parameters being 5000,5000,20000,20000 for step time, space, direction hold, setup) because I couldn't find any information online about my drivers. I then ran the jitter test and copied the max value in the box.
I then copied the pinout specified for my BoB but only for the motors STEP and DIR setting anything else to "unused", wanting to only test the motors:

-Pin 2: X Step
-Pin 3: X Dir
-Pin 4: Y Step
-Pin 5: Y Dir
-Pin 6: Z Step
-Pin 7: Z Dir

I then proceeded to the different axis configuration pages and, just setting steps per revolution and microsteps (looking at the tiny switches pre-set by the previous owner), I hit "test this axis". Here is the problem. All I got, for each axis, was a really brief flash of an LED on the BoB and at the same time the on-board relay clicking, nothing else. None of the motors moved or seemed to oppose any resistance to being twisted by hand.
After trying to change different parameters making different configurations (inverting the pins, changing steps per revolution and the timings on the first configuration page) the result was always the same, relay and LED briefly activating when clicking on "test" and nothing else.

Afterwards I tried checking the connections and found that the ENA+, DIR+ and PUL+ where all tied to the BoB COM, while ENA-, DIR- and PUL- where all connected to the respectively labeled pins on the BoB. Measuring from COM to ENA-, DIR- and PUL- i got around 4.5V.
I also tried inverting the connections (connecting the +s to the respective pins and the -s to COM) but got the exact same result.

I'll attach some pictures of the BoB (I know it's dirty but it's just superficial), driver and motor:





Thanks to all of you in advance, in case you need more infos I'll send them asap.
Happy CNCing

You most likely need to configure the enable signal. Not sure which parallel port pin it is connected to on that board (there is a glare in the photo and can't read that part.) Best guess it's pin-17. Set it up in Stepconfig. You may or may not have to invert the signal. It probably won't work in the test screen of Stepconfig because I don't think it uses the enable.

You might also need to connect a jumper on the left side of the board to enable the BOB.

Thank you so much for your quick answers, tomorrow morning I'll try your suggestions and report back because now it's a bit late.

[SOLVED]

Fix: setting pin 17 (as stated on the BoB) as "Amplifier Enable" during the StepConf (even worked with the "test" button so it uses the enable)

Guys thank you SO MUCH, your suggestions worked. I'm so happy right now, I love the fact that communities like this exist.

Happy CNCing everyone and have a great day.