Steam Update Problem - Freezes at 27%

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Hi,

Hoping someone may be able to help with this one... I've just bought HL2 and
have succesfully installed HL2, CS:Source and Steam.

Problem is that no matter which i start i just get a 'Steam Updating' box
appear which moves up to 27% then starts over. After 3 tries it tells me
that Steam is temporarily unavailable. It's done this lots of times over
several days.

Looking on the Steam support site there is a similar topic, which just says
to contact their support staff, but i though i may get a quicker answer
here!

Cheers.
Martin.

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"MJC" wrote

> Problem is that no matter which i start i just get a 'Steam Updating' box
> appear which moves up to 27% then starts over. After 3 tries it tells me
> that Steam is temporarily unavailable. It's done this lots of times over
> several days.
>
1) Try restaring your comp if your connection fails
2) Try the validate commands
HL2
steam://validate 340

CS:S
steam://validate 240

3) if nothing helps try deleting the clientregistry.blob

Note: Could be a problem with bandwidth on the internet when Tour de France
is live (video broadcasts)

HTH/Peter