No Camera Attached on a Macbook?

[Jackbond64]

Hello Mac Rumor Forums,

So today i try and start up photobooth and i notice my camera wont show up and theres an error logo, so i tryed imovie and ichat, none worked, i realized my computer isnt reconizing my built in isight camera?!?! HELP PLEASE

MY PHOTOBOOTH:

 

[xUKHCx]

Boot into safe mode by holding down "shift" as the computer starts. Then restart normally

 

[Jackbond64]

thanks that worked!

 

[dpaanlka]

Thats weird, why would booting into Safe Mode and then restarting normally fix that?

 

[xUKHCx]

Thats weird, why would booting into Safe Mode and then restarting normally fix that?

I assume it sorts out a potential problem with loading of certain drivers.

I had this issue a couple of times which wasn't resolved by a normal boot so I did a safe boot in vague hope and it cured it both times. As always though YMMV.

 

[acearchie]

BTW i love your other photobooth pics! ha

 

[richard.mac]

do you have parallels by any chance? i noticed that when activating the isight camera (which is connected by USB) in the virtual machine, Mac OS X doesnt pick it up and shows that same sign in photo booth.

 

[3bs]

Pretty old thread but got the camera on my late 2010 MBA to work. Thanks