my L298N motor driver isn't working with pi 5

Hi,i'm new to this server. so i'm making a project that requires 2 motors to move.so i decided to use 2 hobby gear motors and an l298n to control them, i also connected them to 3 18650 li-ion battery's. all good so far, but when i tried controlling them, nothing happened. so i tried a few things to do: 1:check the wiring multiple times 2:check the code multiple times 3:i tried adding a heat sink but it didn't work 4:tried directly giving commands to it using the terminal instead of code 5:tried using 2 18650 battery's because it worked a long time ago with 2 battery's but now it didn't work, even if it did work it was slow 6: i tried using an external 5v regulator because i had a suspicion that the internal 5v regulator wasn't working but it still changed nothing 7: tried using another driver like the l293d but it still didn't work 8:tried connecting the motor directly to the power supply and it did work so it's not the motor or the battery's that are broken and some other minor stuff like switching jumper wires and things. but non worked. this is the code(the code is for testing just one motor) and i posted an image of the whole thing too(i know the image isn't very clear cause i have messy wiring). i also just wanted to point out that buying other components is like the last resort, so don't go in and say"just buy a new driver or something", i would appreciate any help possible, Omar. import lgpio import time # Define GPIO pins IN1 = 24 IN2 = 23 ENA = 22 h = lgpio.gpiochip_open(0) # Set pins as outputs lgpio.gpio_claim_output(h, IN1) lgpio.gpio_claim_output(h, IN2) lgpio.gpio_claim_output(h, ENA) # Enable motor lgpio.gpio_write(h, ENA, 1) # Full speed # Run forward lgpio.gpio_write(h, IN1, 1) lgpio.gpio_write(h, IN2, 0) time.sleep(3) # Stop motor lgpio.gpio_write(h, IN1, 0) lgpio.gpio_write(h, IN2, 0) l # Cleanup lgpio.gpiochip_close(h)

Ehm, So it has worked well before?