Thinkpad T530 Integrated Camera not working

Hi Folks,
I got my thinkpad T530 last week. I tested the skype after opening the box and it works. Then I took off the original 320G HDD and put my 830 SSD on it, reinstalled the win8 and blah blah blah.
Just last night when I tried to chat with my parents on skype i found out the the camera is dead. I tried by doing so:
1) according to others threads I uninstall most of the unnecessary drivers;
2) reinstall the camera driver;
3) deleted the ricoh media driver;
4) updated the BIOS;
5) tired to locate someone mentioned, the "privacy" problem. But the video/camera option is not even showing up by Fn+F6;
6) downloaded and installed the thirdparty AMCAM and it says no camera device can be found.
Please let me know if there is anything else i can do.
Thank you ,
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technically it's the same. I don't think there is a difference between t530 and e series.
Are you using win 8 or win7? for win8 it's a windows 8 app (after you pressing windows button..)

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Hi HLemieux,
I researched your issue and this is what I found from the Lenovo Assisted Search:
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1. Be sure your webcam driver is installed. (It can be found at http://consumersupport.lenovo.com/ot/en/DriversDownLoads/Drivers.html)
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