Database errors after hardware failure

[patracy]

I've played around with making it localhost and 127.0.0.1 but both give errors that it cannot connect to the database when viewing the page source.

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Also for giggles, I edited vB's config.php and loaded root's password and username to see if there's an issue with the account. But that also gave me the same error about access denied. (I then moved it back)

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I made a simple connection php script and uploaded it just to see if vB/VBSEO was the problem. It doesn't connect to the database either. I'm just stumped now. But I feel as though it's something mysql or php related, since I can directly connect to the database from the command line.

PHP Code:

<?php
$link = mysql_connect(
   'steelsoldiers.com', 
   '********', 
   '*******', 
   '*****'
);
if (!$link) {
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
echo 'Connected successfully';
mysql_close($link);
?>