Thanks for your suggestion I finally figured it out and not sure what really changed other than removing a connection point. The electrician that wired my box had a main junction board where all the wires tied into then a new wire ran from there to its point, be it a driver parallel port or power supply. Initially I had hooked the drivers direct to stepper motors, to see if I had a connection issue or mixed up wire. The final connections left in the junction board were the limit switches and emergency shut off, once connecting those wires directly to the the break out board all controls worked as they are supposed to. Mind blown!
6 weeks of this hassle. Thanks to everyone that gave input.
My next step is understanding z axis for cut starts and stops. Also just realized from a video I watched that I need a connection point to the plasma to tell it when to fire. I believe there is a relay in the box just need to connect wires/cord from it to plasma.