won't connect to database

[pnewby]

it was working yesterday and now my phpbb forums won't connect to my database??? i have no idea why?

[krohnjw]

Can you manually connect to the dabase via a terminal window? Is it possible somone stopped the mysql service?

[pnewby]

the mysql is installed on my machine so nobody stoped it and reinstalled mysql and tryed to make another database and this is what i get

C:\MYSQL\BIN>mysqladmin -u root create pboards
MYSQLADMIN: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)'
Check that mysqld is running on localhost and that the port is 3306.
You can check this by doing 'telnet localhost 3306'

[krohnjw]

Solving this on AIM

[krohnjw]

Since you signed off give this page a look
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/m...utomatic_start

You will need to start the mysql daemon.