# HELP! LOCALHOST 3306 not accessible?!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-localhost-3306-not-accessible/45117
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 11, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-localhost-3306-not-accessible/45117 "2004-03-11T05:18:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@SeiferTim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SeiferTim)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-localhost-3306-not-accessible/45117/1 "2004-03-11T05:18:11Z")
I updated windows, and the computer crashed halfway through (IRQ error).
I rebooted, system restored, and now my mySQL will not start, because localhost port 3306 is not accessable!? Anyone know of any ideas?
```auto
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Tim Hely>telnet localhost 3306
Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port 3306: C
onnect failed
C:\Documents and Settings\Tim Hely>
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-localhost-3306-not-accessible/45117/2 "2004-03-11T14:37:16Z")
Anyone know anything about mySQL that could be keeping me from starting my Db server? It worked 100% fine up until last night, and I can’t figure out what happened…
In searching online, I saw the suggestion to try other ports, but none of them seem to be open, either…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-localhost-3306-not-accessible/45117/3 "2004-03-11T15:20:37Z")
I wondered why I kept getting SQL errors when I tried to connect to the server… No idea how to fix though I’m afraid…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-localhost-3306-not-accessible/45117/4 "2004-03-11T16:49:35Z")
Yeah… i’m trying to fix it right now, from work… which isn’t easy… :sure:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-localhost-3306-not-accessible/45117/5 "2004-03-11T17:59:53Z")
Yay! I fixed it by updating mySQL to 4.0. Don’t know why it happened though… so it may happen again… :ne:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-localhost-3306-not-accessible/45117/6 "2004-03-11T19:34:40Z")
One thing to try is from the computer that is affected is to ping 127.0.0.1 (local host address) This will verify that TCP/IP is up and running on the PC. Also, you may want to make sure XPs built in firewall, or any firewall you have running has port 3306 open and allowing traffic. 🙂
Cheers!
-Niann
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-localhost-3306-not-accessible/45117/7 "2004-03-11T19:47:05Z")
Yeah, Tcp/Ip was running fine. I was online, and my Apahe server was still working fine. Plus, I don’t use the Windows XP crappy firewall at all, and my other firewall has always had the right ports open (mySQL worked fine before this all happened, and I never messed with my firewall)… so its still a big mystery.