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Old December 5th, 2005, 08:46 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Connecting with Steam Problems?

Alright, well i wanted to start playing Half-Life 2 again since i finally had some time on my hands. So i try starting it up an Steam comes up and wants my password. So i type my password (I know it's correct) and get an error message that says, "Could not connect to Steam network." It's been happening for the last 3 days and still says the same thing. So, i went to Steams website and did everything it said to get Steam to work. I turned off all of my firewalls and it still says the same thing. I don't know what to do anymore. I use to like Steam but its starting to make me mad. If anyone has any idea what to do, please help me!
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Old December 5th, 2005, 08:50 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Me thinks it was an update issue. Mine went away for some reason.
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did you check internet connection?
did you ever give out or give a hint to anyone about your password?
(if you did i'm thinking that you got hacked)
did you check your screenname?
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Old December 5th, 2005, 10:33 PM     #4 (permalink)
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Is your router blocking steam somehow?

Did you try power cycling your router to see if it worked?

You are, hopefully on broadband...right? o_o;

Throwing ideas... ^_^
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1. Completely close out of Steam.

2. Go into your steam directory and delete your clientregistry.blob file.

Don't worry, it won't harm anything... Just re-type in your password after that. It should work again... A glitch w/ Steam that many people have faced.

(If you had entered a bad password it would've told you.)
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Old December 5th, 2005, 11:23 PM     #6 (permalink)
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did you check internet connection?
did you ever give out or give a hint to anyone about your password?
(if you did i'm thinking that you got hacked)
did you check your screenname?


1. Yes my internet connection is working fine
2. Nope ive never given my password or hinted it to anyone
3. Yes my screen name is fine
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Old December 5th, 2005, 11:24 PM     #7 (permalink)
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Is your router blocking steam somehow?

Did you try power cycling your router to see if it worked?

You are, hopefully on broadband...right? o_o;

Throwing ideas... ^_^

I turned my routers firewall off so that cant be it. Yea i have broadband and im not sure what you mean by power cycling my router?
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Old December 5th, 2005, 11:25 PM     #8 (permalink)
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1. Completely close out of Steam.

2. Go into your steam directory and delete your clientregistry.blob file.

Don't worry, it won't harm anything... Just re-type in your password after that. It should work again... A glitch w/ Steam that many people have faced.

(If you had entered a bad password it would've told you.)


I'll give that a try again.

EDIT: Didn't work....
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Old December 5th, 2005, 11:28 PM     #9 (permalink)
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Could it be that i need to open a port in my windows firewall?
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Old August 5th, 2008, 08:47 PM     #10 (permalink)
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Steam Connection Error

Thanks for the post about renaming the clientregistry.blob file! It solved my connection problem and really should be in Steam's troubleshooting guide!
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