kyfire Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 Recently I've ran into an issue with Steam. When I try to run Steam I get the checking for updates screen and then about a second later I get the following error message.... Steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connection and try again. This just started out of the blue, I've uninstalled steam and reinstalled it with same results. All other programs connect fine. No changes have been done to my router (Linksys WRT54GS). My other rig doesn't have any issues connecting to Steam either only my main rig, in sig. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 Do you have any firewall programs installed on your main rig? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyfire Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 nope. what i don't understand is is worked find a couple weeks ago Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 when you uninstalled it did you do a search for Steam and deleted all files and folders? there could be a config folder in the AppData file thats causing the issue. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyfire Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Yea, I checked and deleted everything relating to Steam. Here's the strange thing, I have the same issue with Origin too. Yet U-Play works fine. I'm almost ready to do a clean install of Windows and see if that fixes it, but I really don't want to have to reinstall all my other programs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Do you have any services turned off? Application Experience is one that will affect steam and Orgin if its turned off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClayMeow Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 The other thing to check is if you have any "network management" software running. Not sure what Gigabyte boards have, but on my ASUS board, "Network iControl" was enabled by default and while it didn't affect Steam, it did eff up Google searches and YouTube uploading, so I turned that off and everything was peachy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 Yea, I checked and deleted everything relating to Steam. Here's the strange thing, I have the same issue with Origin too. Yet U-Play works fine. I'm almost ready to do a clean install of Windows and see if that fixes it, but I really don't want to have to reinstall all my other programs. I've been having trouble with Steam as well. I have a couple of games that worked fine a few weeks ago and today they would not. after a day of fussing with it i just started uninstalling stuff. after I un-installed handbrake and xvid it started working....LOL who'da thunk......I totally wiped steam and re-installed the problematic game and it fired right up.... that was a total waste of a day! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braegnok Posted July 6, 2014 Posted July 6, 2014 (edited) Fatal Error: Steam needs to be online to update,.. is most often caused by third party applications interfering with Steam. Steam Support has a long list of programs which may interfere with Steam,.. you can try checking your startup menu and disabling any listed programs your running,.. one at a time/rebooting and launching Steam.exe from within the steam installation folder,.. and not from a pre-existing shortcut,.. before uninstalling any applications,.. till you find the program causing issues,.. it may be a recent update on a third party application causing issue,.. and simply changing settings or re-disabling app at start up will solve error message. Good Luck,.. it's a time consuming task finding application causing error message,.. when everything was working fine and you haven't added any new programs recently,.. Programs that may interfere with Steam link: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289 Edited July 6, 2014 by Braegnok Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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