Forums been down for 2+ weeks - PLEASE help

[BretFan1]

My forums located at: http://brethart.x10hosting.com/forum have been down for over 2 weeks now. I haven't received any responses on here to my numerous posts. Could somebody please help me?

User: brethart
brethart.x10hosting.com

The whole rest of the website works perfect and fine, but when you go to the forum URL you get the following message:

phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database

I have no idea what is causing this or how to fix it. I have 160 users that are growing very impatient. Please help. Thank you!

 

[Master Yoda]

Have you tried reinstalling the latest forum software from http://phpbb.com ?

Sounds like a file that links to the database has been deleted somehow.

 

[jensen]

You may want to check out this thread - http://forums.x10hosting.com/showthread.php?t=17134 because it would most probably explain the problem you are having

 

[BretFan1]

I have checked the above thread, and posted in it a while back, with no success

 

[Spartan Erik]

Well Corey is still working on fixing those accounts.. we're all quite busy; people are on vacation, x10rewards is coming out, etc

 

[Jacob]

If it has been down for 2+ weeks, why are you just posting now? Corey and the rest of the staff have been working extremely hard to get everything back up.

 

[BretFan1]

I'm not just posting now. I've posted numerous times, check my post history if you don't believe me. I think I said in the first post in this thread that I've posted numerous times with no response.

Like I said, if anyone could give me some help or at least an estimated time of how much longer this will take, it'd be very appreciated. Thanks!!

 

[BretFan1]

Anybody?

 

[BretFan1]

Since this has not really been going anywhere, is there anyway that someone from the staff can send me a backup of the database from my forums? This way I can start a new forum from scratch and load all the old posts so I don't lose any of them. The file can be sent to my email if possible. Let me know, that'd be great!

 

[Master Yoda]

Why not just download phpbb and upgrade it rather than doing a clean install????