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Hi! I’ve got a Macbook Core Duo, last serial number letters RVMN. This morning I tried using Facetime, and the iSight wasn’t recognized. It doesn’t even appear in the System Profiler: the USB Hi-Speed bus where it used to be connected seems sadly empty, the green light doesn’t shine in my bezel anymore. Without opening the machine, a Genius I called upon told me it could be the iSight or the Logic Board. It occurs to me that my laptop only froze up yesterday, when I tried to test my new extrnal DVD with handbrake, but nothing capital. My laptop seems in perfect working order, and yesterday, as I told, I was placing calls with Facetime. I resetted the SMC and the PRAM, dug up my Hardware Test DVD with the original OS X Tiger (I’m on Snow Leopard now) and gave a rapid and a full test. My computer seems fine. Since I got charged lots for repairs, with almost no warrant that isn’t a logic board issue, I ask to you friends: Is there a way to troubleshoot who has died between the iSight and the logic board? Which part should I replace? UPDATE: A clean install of OS X 10.4 showed me that there’s no software issue. It’s all in the hardware. However, the “USB Hi-Speed” seems to be the external ports, and there’s an empty “USB BUS”. Is that where the iSight should be? Is there a way to rule out a Logic Board damage?
Stefano, since you’ve been around here for a while, I would suspect you have an external firewire hard drive. If so, install a system on it and boot from it and check your system profiler and see if the iSight shows up. You didn’t tell us what these repairs were that you got charged for, please do.
