Oddly enough, the unknown reason for the error is as complicated as why it probably happened. I bought Gmod+TF2 Bundle off of Steam around March 3rd, and 1 single error has driven me mad. I first installed it on my dad's speedy laptop(lets call it comp1), but it took forever to install. While it was, I installed it on my slightly slower desktop(lets call it comp2) and played it for a while, until one day, the 80gb HDD was so stuffed with addons, I needed to strip my old Ideq of its 160gb. The old HD had steam on it, but wasn't used for 4 = 5 yrs. After I put it in, Steam ran fine, and so did Gmod, until I went to play online, I could connect to a server, but once I downloaded the required stuff, It said my account was being used elsewhere. Frustrated, I turned off every single computer in the house and resterted Gmod, but it came up with the same error. With it still installing on dad's laptop, I turned and installed it on my grandpa's gateway W730 - K8X(lets call it comp3) . It ran well, with no problems, until Tennesse flooded a few weeks ago. The internet was so $h!tty, Steam killed itself and tried to reinstall Gmod, not wanting to download 10gb at 2Kb/s, I turned it on offline mode, but Gmod deleted itself and reconnected automaticly. Just today, Gmod finnally finished installing on my dad's laptop. Hoping to finnaly play, I started it up, but the same error that started it came back, when I clicked on a server, it downloaded and said it was being used elsewhere...
comp1 specs (laptop)
Dell Studio 1535
2.00Ghz Core 2 Duo
4gb DDR Ram
250GB HDD
Windows Vista Home 32bit
Radeon HD3450
comp2 specs (desktop)
custom/whitebox
2.8Ghz Pentium D
2.25Gb DDR2 Ram
80Gb Western Digital Sata HD
Nvidea Geforce 8500GT
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
comp3 specs (laptop)
Gateway W730 - K8X
2.2Ghz Amd Mobile Athlon 64
1.25Gb DDR Ram
100Gb HD Partitioned 20gb/80gb
Windows XP MCE 32bit / Windows Vista Ultimate32bit (Gmod on XP side)
Thread can also be found here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/239552-49-steam-gmod-reinstall-error-account-elsewhere
And now also here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100517160741AAW0R4A
Please tell me how I can fix this and move on.
comp1 specs (laptop)
Dell Studio 1535
2.00Ghz Core 2 Duo
4gb DDR Ram
250GB HDD
Windows Vista Home 32bit
Radeon HD3450
comp2 specs (desktop)
custom/whitebox
2.8Ghz Pentium D
2.25Gb DDR2 Ram
80Gb Western Digital Sata HD
Nvidea Geforce 8500GT
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
comp3 specs (laptop)
Gateway W730 - K8X
2.2Ghz Amd Mobile Athlon 64
1.25Gb DDR Ram
100Gb HD Partitioned 20gb/80gb
Windows XP MCE 32bit / Windows Vista Ultimate32bit (Gmod on XP side)
Thread can also be found here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/239552-49-steam-gmod-reinstall-error-account-elsewhere
And now also here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100517160741AAW0R4A
Please tell me how I can fix this and move on.