Please, someone who's had trouble with steam

[BYOBKenobi]

I bought HL2 collectors edition today, installed it, restarted, and launched steam. I get an error, which I will post screen shots of if needed that says I cannot connect to the steam servers. I've been working on everything from disabling all forms of firewalls and disabling everything running but steam and it still won't connect.

If I put in the wrong password it tells me the password is incorrect, but when I put in the right one it says it cannot connect.

When steam first opened it updated itself. It downloaded to 31%, blinked, and finished. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling steam with no results.

If ANYONE can help AT ALL. Please reply here or email me at [email protected].

This is really starting to drive me insane. It's officially been 6 hours since I first installed the whole game. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the entire thing with no different results.

I need help badly before I blow a freaken vessle. Thank you in advance

 

[diluted]

HAve you tried deleting the ClientRegistry.blob file? It's located in the Steam folder. Close Steam and delete it, then restart Steam and it will regenerate it. A number of Steam problems are caused by that file. If you're apprehensive about deleting it, just try moving it out of the folder.

 

[^Ben]

Firewall or router.

 

[BYOBKenobi]

I will try the blob thing next.

I tried everything. Direct connect gave the same error.

XP firewall off. TrendMicro firewall off.

Set up a static IP and opened ports for "steam" as reccomended by portfowarding.

running out of patience

 

[BYOBKenobi]

tried it, nothing

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

www.steampowered.com/forums

http://support.steampowered.com

Will help you out much more tbh.

 

[^Ben]

2 Firewalls :Z

Ok, it's a firewall or a router issue. Trust me on this.

 

[BYOBKenobi]

2 Firewalls :Z

Ok, it's a firewall or a router issue. Trust me on this.

windows XP has a built in firewall that's been off on my PC for 2 years.

TrendMicro has a firewall that has been on while I play EverQuest, Battlefield Vietnam, and Call of Duty. I disabled it and left the program before opening steam... still nothing.

I've tried the help system from valve and no response. I'm activating my forum account there now so I can see if anyone in the community can help.

I've also tried DIRECTLY CONNECTING FROM MY MODEM TO MY PC.

 

[rrr_rrr]

I've had problems too. Following silly suggestions from the 10-12 year olds here, also deleted "clientregistry.blob", resulting in a new 1 1/2 hour wait for "updating". Yikes.

 

[shortsite]

Have you tried switching off peer guardian ?
I had the same kinda problem as you but when I switch off peer guardian it workd!!!

Try it, if you have it

 

[DEATH eVADER]

HAve you tried deleting the ClientRegistry.blob file? It's located in the Steam folder. Close Steam and delete it, then restart Steam and it will regenerate it. A number of Steam problems are caused by that file. If you're apprehensive about deleting it, just try moving it out of the folder.

Huh, I just realised I had problems with that when I first started mny Steam account. I've been away from Steam for so long I just don't remember (Well the internet aspect of Steam anyway)