ISight Freezes in Photo Booth, then dead

I have a 1st generation macbook and all has been good since except my isight stopped working. At some point, it would run 2 to 5 seconds in photo booth and then freeze. Close PB and green LED stayed on. Had to do a hard shutdown (not a restart) to get it to turn off. The first time, I erased the plist for PB and it solved the issue. A few weeks later, dead again, but tryed all proposed solutions (plis, repair permissions, ...etc - EZ Jim) and nothing work...still starts a few seconds and freezes; then all apps tell me it is in use, even under another account. Funny thing is: To run a test, I installed the drivers on XP (in parallels) and the isight works 100% in parallels. Go back to OS X, and still not working. (NB: The cam appears in the system profiler with the correct FW version). I'm running 10.4.11 and have the impression this had started since the last apple update (security update)...can't remember installing anything new except for an aftermarket battery which works 100% at the moment. Sorry for the typos and crappy writing. Best regards.

kappa--
I lost my iSight camera yesterday, and a friend told me to reset the SMC.
It worked.
Here's info on it:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US

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I have a MacBook Pro, purchased June 2008, and have always had a problem with Photo Booth. When I open the program it captures an initial image, but then freezes for 15 seconds up to a few minutes. When it finally unfreezes, every program runs slows while Photo Booth is open and even a few minutes after it's been closed. I have no other problems with my iSight while using Skype, iChat or any web-based video applications. I've tried closing all other programs before using Photo Booth, but that has no effect on the freezing. It freezes even after a restart. I've checked the activity monitor and when the program is opened and freezing the CPU usage is anywhere between 75 and 99%, then it hovers around 25%. Any ideas on what I could do to stop this annoying freezing would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome to Discussions, MeadowsLing
Problems like those you mention are not unusual for new Mac users, but they are not widespread defects, either. They are usually easily corrected. Here is a good way to start.
For slow performance: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8496.html
Also: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8492.html
For iSight problems: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
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Welcome to Discussions, bigtsez
The PMU reset suggested in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 usually helps such problems for MacBooks.
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