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What if the Camera is undetected?

Hey sorry to be a bother,

My camera was working excellent, and was really happy and impressed my the photo booth (camera whore was the term they gave me). But three weeks and my camera stopped working! I tried to restart, update, and configure my setting to see if those were the issues but it was not it 😟
PLEASE I do not want to pay anymore money and turn this mac in to repair my camera, is there any solution you can give me to resolve this problem?


Thank you very much!

MacBook Pro, iSight Problem

Posted on Jan 20, 2012 12:56 PM

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Jan 20, 2012 5:39 PM in response to AppleFreak808

No bother.


(1) If you have not already done so, restart Mac and try again.


If the iSight still does not work, and if you are convinced that none of Apple's suggestions from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 help you, (for example, are you certain that you used the correct "reset" procedure?), yours is most likely a hardware problem that will require a professional fix. I know that is not the answer you want, but sometimes reality happens.


Unless you have a current backup, make one now.


Then use the final "Troubleshoot iSight" suggestion:


"... contact Apple or an Apple-Authorized Service Provider for service."


If you bought locally, your retailer may be able to help you.


If you want to try on-line help, use http://expresslane.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.do



(2) If you want to try one more thing on your own first, use Disk Utility to repair permissions. Then download and apply the latest Combo Update for your Mac OS.


The latest current 10.7 Combo is here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1459


The latest current 10.6 Combo: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399


Repair permissions again immediately following the system restart that completes the Combo update.


Properly applying the Combo version of updates can sometimes correct problems with software, but hardware problems require help from an Apple technician because there are no user serviceable parts for iSight.






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What if the Camera is undetected?

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