L412 Laptop - continuously shutting down

I have a Lenovo L412 laptop from my company, which has sporadically been shutting down at random.  For the past few months, it was occurring every 2 or 3 days, 1 time.  But today, it shut down and I've been unable to get it to stay logged in enough to even open a file!  As soon as the system logs in, it simply shuts down - completely.  
I am running this on a wood laptop stand with air vents.  I'm also using the power cord continuously because the battery has about 15 minutes of capacity.
When the problem first occurred, I gave it to my tech guys and they re-imaged my machine (losing much of my locally stored documents).  It did nothing to fix the problem.
I put a call in to them again and they require a ticket to fix the problem, which I'm unable to create since I cannot get into the system.  I'm writing this on my home Mac - which never has problems like my work PC.    
Any suggestions on things I could try to get this working?  I can't afford a day of them munking with it and giving it back with the same issue. 
Thanks
JNew

I have the exact same problem with my Lenovo L412.
Random crash.. dust in the fan.. how can I remove the dust ? is there a Youtube video about that ?
Thank you.

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