If you dont have a need for that troubled computer you can always sell it on ebay as a dead computer for parts only, missing hard drive. There is a good market out there for people who want to cannibalize or fix troubled computers mixing guts between like systems, or might need a display to fix their own computer that they sat on etc. If you stick it on there with a starting bid of $10 ot $20 and then advertise proper shipping for weight and box size to ship it in, you might end up with $50 or more in your pocket for it vs throwing it away and getting nothing for it as well as in some locations you have to pay to dispose of electronic waste to to lead and mercury etc which cant go in a normal landfill in many locations.
