Erro jdbc no windows vista [RESOLVIDO]

[color=darkblue]Está ocorrendo o seguinte erro de JDBC, esse erro ocorre apenas no windows vista, no windows xp está rodando normalmente, tenho essa classe de teste de conexão, já tentei autoReconnectForPools=true e autoReconnect=true que geraram o mesmo erro : [/color]

public class GCConnection {

	static Connection conn = null;
	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

		try {
			Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
			conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/base","root", "face");

		} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (SQLException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		try {
			conn.close();
		} catch (SQLException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		System.out.println("Conectando ao banco");

	}

}

[color=darkblue]O erro que ocorre é esse :[/color]

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago.
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:406)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1074)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2120)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:723)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:46)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:406)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:302)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:282)
	at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
	at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
	at br.com.gc.connection.GCConnection.main(GCConnection.java:22)
Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago.
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:406)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1074)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:335)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2043)
	... 12 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:253)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:284)
	... 13 more
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at br.com.gc.connection.GCConnection.main(GCConnection.java:32)

[color=darkblue]Se alguém souber alguma solução e puder ajudar desde já agradeço ![/color]

[color=darkblue]O MySql Server não estava setado com a porta default que era a 3306, era só setar e revolveu o problema ![/color]