Stepper motor excessive current draw only on first idle

[newtekuser]

My 5V stepper motor draws 650mA (driven by ULN darlington array) but only on first idle. I understand the draw is higher when idle, but in my case the draw drops to ~330mA after rotation and going back to idle.
For some reason it only does that the first time after I power on the circuit. Any ideas as to why it's doing this?

[langwadt]

how are you driving it?

two coils on vs. one coil on?

[newtekuser]

One coil energized at a time.

[PeterG]

Double check the state of the output  pins on power up. Looks like your energizing both coils on power up.

[newtekuser]

Double check the state of the output  pins on power up. Looks like your energizing both coils on power up.

Thank you, that's what it was! I also made sure to set the port bits to low after performing any rotations.