I'm your "Tech Psychic". You're obviously running one of those M$ productz and trying to install your own phpBB forum, aren't you? What you want to do is enter localhost as the host name (since you're a newbie you wouldn't be doing distributed access) and you'll have to use WinMySQLadmin to create a database and give it arbitrary user name and password. Then use those that user name and password in your forum install form.
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