Yes, here's the log from after I just tried starting the MySQL:I haven't used xamp for years but there must be logs in xamp?
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] Starting MariaDB 10.4.32-MariaDB source revision c4143f909528e3fab0677a28631d10389354c491 as process 12900
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.3
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using SSE2 crc32 instructions
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 16M, instances = 1, chunk size = 16M
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: 128 out of 128 rollback segments are active.
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file 'C:\xampp\mysql\data\ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: File 'C:\xampp\mysql\data\ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB.
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: 10.4.32 started; log sequence number 39756759; transaction id 41006
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from C:\xampp\mysql\data\ib_buffer_pool
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 240409 13:11:42
2024-04-09 13:11:42 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
Statistics: Posted by SocketPup — Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:14 am