Built-in isight white light on right

Hi, I have a MacBook model 5,1, and the isight stop working months ago. I think I have gone through all the troble-shooting steps it still does not show up in system profiler but about two days ago it worked once when I plugged in a camera via a USB port, I opened it in iMove and in Photo Booth at the same time and it worked again but I took a pic in Photo booth and it shut off, the picture came out good but it hasn't turn on since.
     I have reset the SMC and NVRAM, tried opening it in an other account, safe booting, zero out the hard drive and reinstalling OSX, and update of all the software and firmware.THE ONLY THING THAT STANDS OUT TO ME is when ever I turn on my Macbook there is a white light that flashes once on the right side on the iSight before the screen even turns on.    

Welcome to Apple Discussions, schmara
Try the suggestions for the "exact same problem " in this thread:
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One of them will help you, and, especially if your MacBook requires service by an Apple-Authorized Service Provider, you are wise to get the problem corrected ASAP.
EZ Jim
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