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    My Steam Wont Connect!!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by wildman_33, Jul 16, 2009.

  1. wildman_33

    wildman_33 Notebook Evangelist

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    for some reason my steam will no longer connect to the interent so i can only log in in offline mode. i had not been on steam for about a month and i went to go on it and it said connection error my firewall if not blocking it at all so i cant understand what is wrong. if i reinstall is there a way to keep all the games as they take ages to download
     
    wildman_33, Jul 16, 2009
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  2. Mastershroom

    Mastershroom wat

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    Your games are not deleted just because you can't log in. Even if you're in Offline Mode, you should still have access to your list of games. You can use Steam's integrated backup utility to back all your games up to an external hard drive or to burnable DVDs.
     
    Mastershroom, Jul 16, 2009
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    Do you use Firefox? It happened me once a few months back that Steam could not connect, but actually it was because for some reason the Internet Explorer was set to work offline. Check it, it may help you.
     
    lozanogo, Jul 16, 2009
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    Some reason its not connecting for me to, it just hanging at connecting to steam account ......
     
    xxbadboys93, Jul 16, 2009
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  5. Kevin

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    You can keep your games by moving the steamapps folder somewhere else before you uninstall. Then move it back after you reinstall and run the steam.exe, so it will recognize them.
     
    Kevin, Jul 17, 2009
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    dont worry it started working after i installed neotokyo today for some strange reason
     
    wildman_33, Jul 17, 2009
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