I’ve never had a stepper driver overheat.
Drivers however can get hot over a long time and since it’s on the bench see if a fan helps.
Drives are controlled by a step and direction signal which are 5 volts. I would suspect something is going on with that signal on that axis. Could be a loose wire?
You can even bypass the computer with a frequency generator for steppers.
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