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turbomelon · 12-20-2009, 08:29 PM

This is kind of a longshot, but I've spent hours searching google and steam's forums.

I recently got a Asus G51-J the Corei7 laptop, and whenever I try to fire up steam it completely locks up my computer. I've isolated the problem to when steam client services tries to start up, but I can't figure out what the fix is.

I'm using windows 7 and I've tried everything from reducing user access control to shutting off my firewall, antivirus and every other non essential background process. I've done registry cleaning, updated all my drivers and tried out every single "fix" stated on various other tech forums and steam forums. So pretty much whenever steam tries to start up it locks up my computer.

I was wondering if anyone on here had any possible suggestions. When my laptop freezes its not one of those oh ctrl+alt+del end process it completely locks up everything and you have to hard shut down. Thanks in advance anyone.

12-20-2009, 08:29 PM	#1
turbomelon Revscene.net has a homepage?! Join Date: May 2004 Location: Redmond USA Posts: 1,255 Thanked 102 Times in 30 Posts Failed 0 Times in 0 Posts Member's Picture Albums	help with steam and windows 7 This is kind of a longshot, but I've spent hours searching google and steam's forums. I recently got a Asus G51-J the Corei7 laptop, and whenever I try to fire up steam it completely locks up my computer. I've isolated the problem to when steam client services tries to start up, but I can't figure out what the fix is. I'm using windows 7 and I've tried everything from reducing user access control to shutting off my firewall, antivirus and every other non essential background process. I've done registry cleaning, updated all my drivers and tried out every single "fix" stated on various other tech forums and steam forums. So pretty much whenever steam tries to start up it locks up my computer. I was wondering if anyone on here had any possible suggestions. When my laptop freezes its not one of those oh ctrl+alt+del end process it completely locks up everything and you have to hard shut down. Thanks in advance anyone.