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Offline GeNe

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Steam Connection Problem
« on: August 31, 2007, 05:06:13 pm »
All of a sudden I can't connect to steam!

No hardware/software changes; every thing else internet related seems to work fine.

Others are on the server...

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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2007, 05:34:20 pm »
Hacker
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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2007, 05:44:38 pm »
Hit steampowered.com for support issues.  Not sure what would cause that, but they have pretty extensive options these days.

everything starts with "delete your clientregistry.blob file" - so I would start with that.
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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2007, 05:50:35 pm »
Well, now we have your login name, just gotta guess your password and we can impersonate you  :lol:
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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2007, 05:57:09 pm »
No one would ever mistake you for meph, Sinner. 

Believe it or not, we all have a .blob in our record. 
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Offline GeNe

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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2007, 06:33:43 pm »
i went to steampowered.com, sent an email, no reply yet.

i searched through the answer centre with nothing really helpful...they said things like, check your router, firewall, viruses, spyware etc...nothing has changed and i ran both virus and spyware checks.
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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2007, 08:02:29 pm »
Did you do a .blob-ectomy?
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Offline GeNe

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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2007, 08:54:00 pm »
yup; no joy.
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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2007, 08:56:37 pm »
nope delete everytrhing and reload steam thats what I do about 3 months.  I rarely have problems with valve.
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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2007, 10:08:47 pm »
still no joy. tried uninstalling all the games assocaited with steam and deleting all the folders, then restart and reinstall and still no joy.

i am set up on a DMZ and i disabled all software firewalls, still no joy.
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Offline GeNe

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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2007, 10:27:25 pm »
interesting turn of events.

i installed steam on my laptop (on the same wireless network but no DMZ) which also has the same client firewall, and it works!

no idea what it is on my computer that is doing this. maybe i'll try a internet cookie purge.
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Offline GeNe

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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2007, 11:12:16 am »
GAH!

OMG.

So in desperation, I installed Windows Vista (which I couldn't install clean for some reason...had to be run from my existing version of Windows)

And then still no joy.

And I thought, hmm...maybe I will DISABLE the DMZ...and voila, steam starts working. WTF.
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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #12 on: September 01, 2007, 02:13:11 pm »
Pwnt.
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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2007, 04:28:17 pm »
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Re: Steam Connection Problem
« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2007, 06:38:04 pm »
and I always thought a dmz was a demilitarized zone.  Guess that's why people don't call me a hacker.    :huh:
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