Built-in iSight in Macbook Pro 4,1 not recognized.

Hi, just noticed iSight stopped working after trying Photo Booth days ago. I used before some months ago, so I cannot say for sure when stopped working. At first looking for in forums and Apple support pages, I tried reseting NVRAM and SMC controller twice and installed a clean OS in a different partition (Snow Leopard), but the problem occurs in Lion 10.7.2 as well.
At boot time, the Console log OS X trying to enumerate a bus but giving up later.
12/25/11 11:53:08.000 AM kernel: USBF:          0.612          [0xffffff800fe53c00] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in.  It will keep retrying.  (Port 4 of Hub at 0xfd000000)
At boot time, the Console log OS X trying to enumerate a bus but giving up later.
12/25/11 11:53:08.000 AM kernel: USBF:          3.605          [0xffffff800fe53c00] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
System Information/Profiler won't say there is an USB device recognized like sample bellow:
Previous I had this working as:
I suspect of a hardware problem but I am not sure if this is iSight component/part or logic board problem (maybe in USB controller). Have anyone seem this before and repaired or had a Mac serviced? I would like to try replacing iSight with a new part in after market before looking for replacing a logic board? Laptop is almost 4 years old so not valid Apple Care anymore. I can try getting both parts but cleared wanted try the iSight first as it costs about $30 plus shiping. Getting a new logic board is a way more expensive as I have to pay import duties to Brazil almost doubling the sale price. AASP probably charges $1800 to repair the laptop, mostly because of the expensive price to import a logic board.  Weigthing my options considering machine age and fix costs.
Also, I have no tried running Boot Camp (which I don't have installed) to see if get it to work somehow.
Thanks!

Hi,
A Possible.
There used to be a document on resetting the Firewire ports.
Basically this involves shutting down the computer for 15 minutes with all the firewire devices disconnected.
For Laptops the Power card should also be removed.
The process allows for the numbering process to discharge so that the current numbering is lost.
All devices then get renumbered when they are reconnected.
It has never been that clear as to whether this also works for USB ports.
However it may be worth a try and it does not cost anything.
8:59 PM      Thursday; December 29, 2011
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