No images with isight ? ?

Hi,
I cant see any images with the isight camera on my new imac, the green light is on, but no images in Photo Booth, imovie and ichat. Need help. Thanks.

Welcome to Apple Discussions, Christian Rodier
Your problem may be hardware related, but until you get better suggestions from iNtel Mac users, here are some common solutions that help most avoid a visit to their Apple Service Technician.
None of the suggestions is complicated, but the only way to find which one will work for you is to try each relevant item one-by-one until you find the one that fixes your Mac.
(0) Disconnect any unnecessary peripherals while you do your testing to rule out possible conflicts.
(1) Restart your Mac. Sometimes that is all that is required.
(2) If you use VMware Fusion to run Windows on your Mac, consider disconnecting iSight from your Virtual Machine as recommended by user "The.VCI" in this post.
(3) If you use an HP printer/scanner with your Mac, consider the "daemon" suggestions from user "parkersal" in this post.
(4) Check for any running applications, Login Items, or widgets that can use your iSight. (It is easy to forget widgets like Mirror in your Dashboard.) As explained in Apple's iSight "Your camera is in use by another application" message, iSight can be used by one application at a time.
(5) Try every suggestion re: Built-in iSight in How to Troubleshoot iSight. You have already verified that the problem is not "application-specific." Be sure to also check whether the problem is "user-specific".
Click here if you need help creating a new user account to check whether your problem is "user-specific" during Troubleshooting.
(6) If resetting or the other troubleshooting suggestions do correct your problem, try the following:
• Backup your Home Folder, or at very least, your important files.
• Repair permissions. (Click here if you need help.)
• Then download and apply the Mac OS X 10.4.10 Combo Update v1.1 (iNtel).
• Finish with another Permissions Repair, and then check your iSight again.
Users have reported fixes to a variety of audio, video, connectivity, and software conflicts and unreliability issues after properly applying Combo Updates.
(7) Some iNtel Mac laptop users have also reported success after unplugging their Macs and leaving the battery out for half-an-hour to overnight. You might want to try unplugging EVERYTHING from your iMac to see if that might help you.
(8) If none of these suggestions help, I suggest that you take your iMac to your Apple-Authorized Service Provider for a professional check.
Please let us know what fixes it for you. That information may help others who also have your problem.
If you must post back for clarification or more information, please tell us if you are seeing any error messages when you try to use "Photo Booth, imovie and ichat". Perhaps you are seeing a message that no camera is connected or that your camera is in use by another application. Perhaps you see green or black screens where your iSight's image preview should be. The more details you can give, including whether your iSight shows as a USB device in your System Profiler, the more likely our next suggestions can be helpful.
EZ Jim
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