Internal isight problems

Hello,
I just purchased a macbook for school this September, and isight just started throwing up all over everything (figuratively). It was working fine, now it intermediately displays a black screen in photo booth, ichat and imovie. I tried restarting and experienced the same problem, (the green light is on). It is working at the moment, but sometimes I'll only have Safari open and the green light will activate (it's making me a bit paranoid...)
Any thoughts?

Dear gsallomi, 2 years ago with my new macbook, I had the same problem. It started when I run a game in bundle with the new mac "Big Band Board Games" for play on the web. From then on, at start up of my mac the iSight light was on. I solved opening the games, there preference and disabilited iSight. The same i did in iChat (that don't use) and other software I don't use but maybe authomatically open iSight.
Another suggestion is to go in system preferences/ account/ login elements and deleting process using iSight or web (notice that to delete it you have to click on it and click on - at bottom, not only sign it that only not show the process)
I hope some other more expert than me can help you. As this forum is helping me very much, I try to be gratefull to you.
fernando

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I have the Macbook Pro before yours (2ghz with the RAM maxed out and the larger drive that was available).
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It does seem strange though.
The Internal iSight is USB and has a .kext of it's own to run that.
The External iSight has it's own .kext file to run it.
Sometimes on Firewire devices the ports need to be reset. (Power Down the computer and on Laptops remove any external Power Supply and then wait 15 mins for internal capacitors to discharge.)
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In the second Pic in the Instructions it shows Pacifist's view of the files as they are laid out on the Hard Drive (Contents of Essentials being equal to the Hard Drive Level).
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Rob Keys wrote:
iSight suddenly stopped working. No green light. Won't work in iChat, Gmail, or Photo Booth. Message "No camera connected to this computer". I followed the advice given here. Restarted. I checked Utilities >> System Profiler >> USB and saw iSight listed (though it said "not configured yet"). I reset the PRAM, went back to System Profiler and now iSight doesn't show up at all.
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