Hi Krister,
There's an Apple Support Document on "How to TroubleShoot iSight" in
their Knowledge Base at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
but you've probably tried most of those recommendations if you've been
working with Apple Support. One thing that was suggested in that
document (specifically only for the iMac G5 on Intel-based Macs) was
resetting the SMU (system management unit) -- the microcontroller chip
that controls power functions.
<begin excerpt>
Resetting the SMU can resolve some computer issues such as not
starting up, not displaying video, sleep issues, fan noise issues, and
so on. If your computer still exhibits these types of issues even
after you've restarted the computer, try resetting the SMU.
<end excerpt>
If this is not relevant, you can skip over the instructions.
Otherwise, there is a link in the support document given above
describing how to reset the SMU.
The only other thing I've heard about (apart from powering off, with
other firewire devices and their cables unconnected) is uninstalling
any other Firewire drivers that might be conflicting with the ones for
your iSight. I don't know whether your VMWare Fusion installation
might have supplied anything, but that might be another thing to try.
Sorry not to be able to think of anything else.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 24, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
Hi there.
After a whole day struggling with apple support and the vendor i
bought the Imac from i'm kinda exausted. It wasn't that they were
unhelpful, they weren't they helped me a lot, so this is what i have
done:
I have restarted the computer, no luck with that.
I shut down and took out all cables and chords and waited for about
15 seconds, in fact it was longer but... to no avail.
I have reset the PRam, still no luck.
The Isight camera that's built in to the Imac refuses to connect. I
have a theory though but i don't know how far off it is: Once i
connected the Isight camera to a virtual machine in Vmware fusion
2.0 and forgot to disconnect it. I don't know if that at all has
with my computer not being able to detect the camera or not, but i
registered Fusion to be sure. Turns out that not even Vmware fusion
can't see and detect the camera now.
I'm really at a loss, and i don't want to leave my mac to repair if
it's at all possible...
Anyone else have a clue about what to try, for i am totally clueless
now.
--
/Krister
