For some unknown reason my steam chat is broke, its just a big solid grey box and I cant read messages or talk to anyone, or anything I type seems to come out as jargon.


just a quick heads up, and also anyone got any ideas what this might be? everything else seems fine

Sounds bigtime weird, never heard of that problem before - have you checked the steam support site for any clues?

*edit - have a look at this or this, might be of some help, not sure though

ok fixed it by deleting the clientregistry.blob file.

yeah it was really weird, think something major has screwed up my end. i rebooted and couldn't get my PC to recognise the E drive where steam is, faffed about trying to fix that and came across the solution to remove it from devices, reboot and it worked. Then steam crashed on start-up with this:

http://supportwiki.steampowered.com/wik ... nd_of_blob

which also fixed my chat issue

oh well, cheers i think its time to reformat lol :/

I burnt my dinner once, so I deleted clientregistry.blob and all was well. It fixes so many things.

its pretty special, unfortunately not an indicator of the issue. although in my case a few other things have happened since and it sadly turns out that its more of a physical prob and my actual hard-drive is screwed. lost a fair bit of work

still, i can chat on steam now tho

... feel bad now making bad jokes...

lol no! it was a good joke I liked it.


it cheered me up, even tho im cheery already.

its not so bad, just some old sdk maps and shit tunes i made which are mostly on youtube or myspace anyway.


the worst thing, by far, by fricking miles, is my porn stash has vanished



just kidding

I have another tech question. kinda reached my limit on this one some advice would be great.


basically what should I do at this point?

The situation is my E drive, an external maxtor 500g has been playing up for a while, often not being recognised and noisy. today several folders have vanished and several others were un-openable. saying they were corrupt. After hours of troubleshooting i have done amongst other things:

2 full virus scans with avast and malwarebyte both with clean results.
Tried to chkdsk but it says cannot find path specified
Ran seatools utility with no errors found.
Ran RegCure with over 5000 errors found and all fixed

This made a small difference, now all the folders that were corrupt are appearing to be empty. Thing is I know all the stuff is still there because its still taking up the room.

So should I right off the HD or could this still be a virus or fixable without reformatting it? if its just broke i should hopefully be able to recover, so im kinda hoping for that lol

Same thing happened to one of mine a while ago. Reformatting it worked.

Think the problem was it hadnt been defragged in ages and had been reading off the same sector far too often (games folder).

ok cool, thanks man. Sounds like a very likely thing to of happened. cool so should be able to rip what I can and not lose the drive, best of both worlds


Time for a new internal I think, and demote externals to just storage.


Cheers Spiderbloke