Photo Booth / iSight freezes the whole machine

I have purchased a new 20" iMac.
Photo Booth seems to work fine but, so far twice while it's on, the whole computer froze twice, under identical situation. (My daughter loves playing with it.)
It's a complete freeze but not kernel panic, and only power cycling brings the machine back. I tried to "ping" from other Mac but no response from the machine.
Is there anything I can do to avoid the freeze?
Tai

Hello Tai
Is there anything I can do to avoid the freeze?
Depending on the age of your daughter, you might want to be sure that your Mac is protected from her when you are not watching.
If you do not force your iMac to run all the time without letting it sleep overnight, you should perform regular Mac OS X Maintenance.
Even if you keep your Mac running overnight or manually perform OS X Maintenance, whenever you have to force-shutdown or force-restart your computer you should do a Safe Boot and then restart. Do so now if you have not done so already.
If the only problems you notice are with iSight, you can try the relevant suggestion for built-in iSight in Apple's How to Troubleshoot iSight. Be sure to include the checks for whether the problem is "application-specific" and "user-specific". Click here if you need help creating a new user account to check whether your problem is "user-specific" during Troubleshooting.
If your problems continue, if you have trouble with multiple applications, or if you notice that your Mac is behaving in any other unusual way, consider the suggestions in Isolating issues in Mac OS X and let us know the particulars. We will offer other suggestions based on the details in your response.
EZ Jim
PowerBook 1.67 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.10) G5 DP 1.8 External iSight

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