Steam wont Start up

[walidnasser]

So i purchased a collectors edition of Civ 5 today, i try installing the game however and can only get as far as when steam tries to launch (accept the terms of agreement, get prompted with a message where steam is being installed then my steam starts 'updating') update stays at 0% for about 2 mins then i get a message saying: 'Steam is temporarily unavailable, please try again later'

Urgent help required!!!

[Wan]

I have the same problem!

[koh0222]

Pls HELP!!!

[dapalipro]

re-install steam and make sure its on your main hard drive C:.

[callan]

Wan and walidnasser, please see this thread:

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92622

and see if the solution which worked for the guy there works for you. Let us know!

[Tech JohnT]

You could try deleting everything in the Steam folder apart from Steam.exe and the Steamapps folder.
Then run the steam.exe file.

[callan]

TechJohn. When looking into this for another forum user earlier I discovered his issue was one affecting Steam services provided on the network 180.87.*.* located in Australasia and affecting people from the region. This is almost certainly a local hardware failure of some kind but there is a solid workaround available by selecting your Steam server manually as discussed http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...wnload-region/