Well ive been trying to use my built in webcam into my new dell laptop but it always says please plug in a supported device. ive tried evrything but nothing worked . pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee someone help me.

Have you tried to plug it into a different USB port?
Reinstalling the device drivers may help as well.

it's an external webcam or webcam on the top of the monitor?
if it's external,have you checked Universal Serial Bus controllers on the device manager? the problem might be the USB has '?' sign on it,uninstall it and restart your computer
if it's the one of the lcd monitor,try to find a key on the keyboard that has webcam picture on it,then press it with the Fn (function) key at the same time when the computer is on

try updating or uninstalling then rebooting system and then reinstalling driver

No it doesnt sorry but ive seen some very cheap and small ones on ebay which can just clip onto the screen and plug into a USB port. I bought 1 from China $7 including delivery and works great. Please dont forget to vote

If you still have the motherboard installer CDs, try to uninstall your built-in webcam software. Restart your laptop and then install the webcam software again following the detailed instructions of the installation wizard.

hello,

please try to install the driver and software of the webcam again, I'am giving the link to you for the download, please check under the
input device drivers tab you will find webcam.

you can also check the driver and software in the backup recovery disk by simply installing the software and the driver the webcam should work.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&ServiceTag=&SystemID=STUDIO1737&os=WLH&osl=en&catid=&impid=

thank you.

I have same problem. I downloaded the latest webcam driver, installed it. Everything is fine, in the device manager the device are present. But when i try to load the webcam application from dell the device is not present or not installed appear.
Notice: if I try the YM webcam, the device work properly - that's mean the device driver is OK.
So the E6500 is a beautiful great notebook, with poor software.

Take a look under USB devices if you have any unidentified device. If found uninstall it, reestart the laptop.

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Per the owner's manual:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins9300/en/om/om_en.pdf

No, this system has no internal microphone.

You will need and external microphone to record/transmit audio. If you are going to do video conferencing, most high quality new webcams have a built in microphone in the webcam