can anyone help with iSight problem
Hi, I have a problem with my iMac 24” (early 2008) iSight camera and I have tried all I can find and more. Any help very greatly appreciated. A few weeks ago my hdd failed so I replaced it with a WD 2TB Sata disk. All went well with that no problem. Then as I had no disks I bought some grey Snow Leopard install disks that would not install.
I called Apple and bought genuine Leopard install and they worked fine, however on boot up on them the green light came on. I erased, partitioned and formatted the drive as suggested and installed the software. On restart the green light remained on all the time the iMac was powered. I read lots of support forums and tried: 1) Reset the SMC 2) reset the PRAM 3) checking System Profiler – no USB iSight device, 4) tried Photo booth and iChat and loaded Skype – none recognized the camera.
Next I rung apple and bought the latest Snow Leopard disk. It arrived and before I installed it I reset the SMC again – this caused the green light to go off UNTIL the next boot up. I then installed the Snow Leopard and continued to test as before. No camera in System Profiler or any apps again. I decided to open the iMac again and look for any physical issues with the iSight module. Nothing wrong there at all and in fact with the iMac generally. I put it all back together and erased, partitioned and formatted the drive again for a clean install. The green light went out and I moved on to install the Snow Leopard retail disk. All went well and the light stayed off until my third set of upgrades from Apple when it came on whenever the iMac is powered. I ran the same tests again as before including AHT, another user, PRAM reset, SMC reset.
Considering trying Mountain Lion as I believe this is an OS issue. However, maybe I should just the 19.99 into an external webcam reluctantly? I would love to have it original again! 😟
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3), All upgrades applied