webcam not working

hey,

i have a macbook pro-its approximately 18 months old-recently i tried to use the inbuilt webcam to talk to a friend in japan. his worked grand but mine seems to have stopped working...
it says there is no video source supplied-how is it possible to turn itself off? i can see nothing in system preferences to help me- the only thing i can think is that perhaps the cam was alligned with another user on my laptop and now that they dont use it it too has cancelled itself-any ideas please help
many thanks
conor

HI there,

what software are you chatting with ?

regards

Rc

hey ric,

thanks for gettin back so soon- the cam was working with yahoo messenger-it never worked with msn or anything. it did work in conjunction with photobooth but now doesn't. applications like ichat say the isight just plainly isnt there i.e. there's no video source available. could it have been somethin i might have done on the web?

thanks again

conor

hey ric just wondering if u had any advice for me?

thanks

conor

Hello crotherman,

Have you tried using another Account or creating one in System Preferences, then testing Photo Booth, or Yahoo? Or even iChat?

If you launch iChat and open iChat Preferences, then click on the Video Tab ... what do you see? What about if you launch Photo Booth ... do you receive any error message?

Can you start the camera through the Accounts pref pane, by clicking on the Picture tab?

Click on the Blue Apple icon  in the menubar and select "About This Mac", then click on the "More Info" button, do you see the iSight Camera listed under:

Hardware ~> USB ~> USB High-Speed Bus

Can you think of anything you may have been doing just prior to this issue that may or may not be related?

Here is a doc from the Apple website:

How to Troubleshoot iSight

You could also try booting in Safe Mode, then restarting normally again to see if this has any positive effect.

hey spawn dooley-cool name

thanks for yur help there much appreciated but it still doesnt work

the only thing i can think i did was one night in a drunken stupor i visited a site where ahm how do u say people watch each other...

my canm didnt work here either but it did ask for permission to use it and then it still didnt work... form what i remember

again any help wud be much appreciated thanks


conor

Hi there,

apologies life sometimes get's busy ;-)

If you want me to have a look at your Mac in an hour or so (remotely), let me know...

regards

Ric

thanks ric,

as u can probably tell i'm a little naive about this-how exactly do u do that?

thanks

conor

Hi there,

turn iChat on and add me in as a buddy...

The select the two squares...



regards

Ric

i dont have an aim account i take it i need one ...

tried to add u there but nothin happened