An odd fix for an iSight video/microphone issue

Aug 01, '03 09:59:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I have an Apple iSight that was showing odd issues. And I found an odd solution!

When I first received my iSight, the green "on air" light would only go on half the time. After three weeks of using my iSight on both my tower and my laptop computer, the audio mic in the iSight no longer worked. I tried all possible solutions including unplugging the iSight, quitting iChat, plugging in the camera, launching iChat, rebooting, and all the articles from macosxhints.com, macfixit.com, Apple Kbase articles, etc. I was about to send it back to Apple under warranty. Until I randomly decided to send video to a friend via Yahoo Messenger.

Lo and behold, by enabling the webcam on Yahoo Messenger, it reset something in my iChat(s). The "On-Air" light now works as it should, and each of my computers can now use the built in microphone again. Yahoo Messenger only fixed the issue on that local machine; I had to perform the same steps to have it work properly on my desktop.

[robg adds: I can't confirm this, as I haven't had any issues with my iSight ... anyone else able to verify the problem and fix? And more interestingly, why it might be a fix??]

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