Laser in System shows busy all the time and will not respond

The word Alarm is interesting.

Please do this again and when the result repeats, unplug the usb cable, scroll back in the Console window and Select, Copy and Paste the first 20 lines or so if that’s where the Alarm or Error message seems to have started.

It appears that the GRBL Interrupt Mask isn’t active.

After you reconnect the cable, the engraver will likely resume the communication where it left off. (If it doesn’t connect, Right click the Devices button in the Laser window. This sends a hard reset to the controller.) After you reconnect, please request the Machine settings by entering the following into the Console window:
$$
then press enter.

Unplug the USB cable again so the messages stop scrolling.
Then select the whole report (with your cursor) in the Console window and copy and paste it into a reply here.

I’m looking for a continuous reporting option being enabled. It shouldn’t be causing the error.

The setting for $10=1 is most common for most laser engravers.