ISight audio input no available on sound preferences

Hi All
My isight worked fine on both my G4 Powerbook and My G5 PPC until recently - I tried plugging it intp my G5 but although I can conect and people can see me during iChat they cannot hear me. I tried to change the settings in
iChat 3 > Preferences > Video > Microphone
But the Isight is no longer available as a input.
I tried the same in Sys prefences > sound > inputs
But again it is not showing.
The camera works fine for sound (and shows up on iChat and Sound Prefs) on my G4 powerbook.
I've looked through the forums but not found a solution to my problem.
Hope someone can help as this is very frustrating:)
Peace
Sonorous
G5 2Ghz Dual Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hello Sonorous. It sounds like a Firewire or connection problem with your G5. You will need to do some trouble shooting to find the underlying cause of your symptoms.
Be sure you do not have any Possible hardware or software conflicts on your G5.
Then try the tests and suggestions from How to test your iSight to ensure it is functional on your G5, particularly those related to your connecting cable and Firewire. Reconnecting the cable plugs, the 5 minute shutdown, changing cables, or merely swapping cable ends will sometime resolve problems like yours.
If the Firewire suggestions do not help, and if your Mac OS X maintenance is not up to date, test again after performing maintenance.
If the problem is limited only to iChat AV, consider the troubleshooting suggestions from How to get iChat AV working again. If your only problem is iChat AV, and if the problem began after applying a recent update, you may need to download a fresh copy of the update from the "Downloads" link at the top of this page a reapply it.
Applying the 10.4.6 Combo Updater suggestion may also correct your problem. 10.4.6 resolves a number of issues with older versions of Tiger like the Mac OS X (10.4.3) version you show in your System Info.
Jim

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... the microphone vanished from the
list of audio sources available in the Audio
Preferences, or iChat, or anywhere
else.Does that really mean that
when iSight is plugged in it is not an available
choice in the System Preferences... > Sound >
Input device list?
Yes, that's correct. The iSight is not visible in the System Preferences... > Sound > Input device list.
If so you may have a faulty Firewire cable.
I don't think so, because:
* This iSight works fine -- video and audio -- on another machine.
* The video and audio travels over the same data lines in the Firewire cable, and the video works fine. Cable problems would affect both audio and video.
Does "or iChat" mean, when iChat AV is the active app
and iSight is plugged in, that "iSight Built-in" is
not available in the iChat > Preferences... >
Video > Microphone: Choices Bar?
Yes, that's correct. The iSight doesn't appear in that list of choices.
When iSight is plugged in and iChat AV is the active
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What other apps are "anywhere else": iMovie,
QuickTime Pro, what? Please list all apps you know
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