Web Camera initialization failed. Satellite L655

i bought my laptop a month ago and got this message "web camera initialization failed. please check your camera device and restart application or computer"
done reinstalling drivers
done disabling and enabling webcam on BIOS
my device manager doesnt detect any webcam, but it has a unknown device in the usb but theres nothing connected on my laptop when i checked on it it says "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)"

Toshiba installed newer version of camera SW, one of possible reasons why it doesn't work properly, do full system recovery if after reinstalling device will still not work.

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