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iSight Camera not recognized???
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Hi, try resetting your Mac's system management controller. The equivalent procedure for my iMac G5 worked the last time my iSight stopped working.
Follow instructions at Apples support site: search there for article HT1411.
Hope it works!
Follow instructions at Apples support site: search there for article HT1411.
Hope it works!
i had this problem afer installing bootcamp and parallels and was really worried.
If you shut down your macbook and remove the battery. Then hold down the power button for 5 seconds. This resets something on the board. Put the battery back in and start it up and it'll be working again.
If you shut down your macbook and remove the battery. Then hold down the power button for 5 seconds. This resets something on the board. Put the battery back in and start it up and it'll be working again.
I didn't download anything actually.. i was just on iChat, and it wasn't working, then while trying to back everything up after making a genius bar appointment the superdrive didnt work.. then suddenly out of nowhere it worked.. weird weird stuff
I didn't download anything actually.. i was just on iChat, and it wasn't working, then while trying to back everything up after making a genius bar appointment the superdrive didnt work.. then suddenly out of nowhere it worked.. weird weird stuff
Very strange. I would still suggest doing the NAND reset procedure that I described above as this can usually cure a lot of niggles like this. It doesnt affect your system in any visible way so dont worry - it just resets something on the board
Its a procedure thats on the apple website for troubleshooting isight.
That's actually the procedure to reset the PRAM and NVRAM which can sometimes fix other niggles like Storm Shadow mentioned. It's described in Apple support article HT1379.
To reset the SMC (system management controller), you need to do the procedure that I gave the first article for (HT1411) and that Storm Shadow also described. This has fixed the iSight issue for me in the past when the PRAM reset has not.
Sorry i didn't give a click-able link to the support article before, but i was on the bus using my iPhone (now where's that copy & paste?!)
similiar problem
I just got a macbook in janurary and haven't had a problem until recently.
My isight is not being recongized by ichat. photobooth is working fine. I have tried everything I could think of to see what the problem is. The problem seems to be user specific. My guest account works fine. The only thing that temporarily solved the problem was by going to user<myname<library<prefences<and deleting com.apple.ichat. This worked last night and for a minute this morning but after an hour or so the problem reoccured. I have tried taking the batter out and doing a reset. I have done option command p and r on start up. Nothing works!!!
Does anyone know anything else i could try?? or should i just head over to the mac store??
I just got a macbook in janurary and haven't had a problem until recently.
My isight is not being recongized by ichat. photobooth is working fine. I have tried everything I could think of to see what the problem is. The problem seems to be user specific. My guest account works fine. The only thing that temporarily solved the problem was by going to user<myname<library<prefences<and deleting com.apple.ichat. This worked last night and for a minute this morning but after an hour or so the problem reoccured. I have tried taking the batter out and doing a reset. I have done option command p and r on start up. Nothing works!!!
Does anyone know anything else i could try?? or should i just head over to the mac store??