Is this hardware or software?

[PowerFullMac]

My iSight is a bit screwed up, sometimes when I turn my MacBook on the green light will come on and the iSight will refuse to work, when I open Photo Booth it wont come up with anything, just plain black, no errors or anything... Rebooting wont do it either, I have to shut down, wait a bit, then boot it up again.

Any help?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Nitromaster]

Wirelessly posted (Nokia N70-3 Ireland-Opera: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Symbian OS; Nokia N70/2.0539.1.2; 6366) Opera 8.01 [en])

Sounds like a software problem to me.
You'd probaly get the 'isight not attached' message if it was broken.

 

[tuxtpenguin]

Have you tried repairing permissions yet?

 

[PowerFullMac]

Have you tried repairing permissions yet?

I will try that when I get home today, I am guessing you do that in Disk Utility?

What made me think it could be a potential hardware problem is that the problem starts as soon as the Apple logo bootscreen comes up, so even while the system is booting.

 

[pjrobertson]

Hardware I'd say. It's happened to me once.
My solution was one of these:

1. Re-set the P-RAM
2. Boot into safe mode
3. Shutdown, remove the battery, and press the power button for 5 seconds then reboot.

Hope this helps

 

[DaBrain]

I will try that when I get home today, I am guessing you do that in Disk Utility?

Yes it's under Disk Utility apps.

 

[PowerFullMac]

I fixed the permissions and it turns out a lot of stuff was screwed up!

Lets just hope thats fixed it! Fingers crossed!

If not ill try the stuff pjrobertson said!

Thanks for all the help!

 

[DaBrain]

I fixed the permissions and it turns out a lot of stuff was screwed up!

Lets just hope thats fixed it! Fingers crossed!

If not ill try the stuff pjrobertson said!

Thanks for all the help!

Well Hope it takes care of the issues you are having.

I hear many say you don't need to run/fix permissions, but ever sinced I switched to a Mac over 3 years ago, I always run it before and after I update OSX and in all that time I never have experianced any issues. So I continue to do that. Yet I read many that always say so and so update hosed up their Mac. Either IM lucky or it does matter.

In any case good luck with your system.

 

[PowerFullMac]

Well Hope it takes care of the issues you are having.

I hear many say you don't need to run/fix permissions, but ever sinced I switched to a Mac over 3 years ago, I always run it before and after I update OSX and in all that time I never have experianced any issues. So I continue to do that. Yet I read many that always say so and so update hosed up their Mac. Either IM lucky or it does matter.

In any case good luck with your system.

Thanks for the tips and thanks for the good luck!