I powered up my Shapeoko 5 pro, Now what?

For the spindle see:

for running the machine see:

https://my.carbide3d.com/gswso/06/

and the other videos at:

https://my.carbide3d.com/

Have you done:

One big confidence-builder is to just use the Quick Draw marker holder to plot out some things on paper — it’s low-risk, but you can get as intricate as your patience allows — even do tool changes for different colours/marker widths.

EDIT: That all assumes of course that the machine initializes normally:

https://my.carbide3d.com/gswso/05/

see:

https://my.carbide3d.com/gswso/04/

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