Satellite P10-792 lock ups / crashes and battery

I have been using my P10-792 even since I bought it 3 year ago. Theres been a battery waning box that pops up on my screen (sometimes) saying that I should replace the wrong inserted battery and restart my computer. Theres also a mouse touch pad issue. It touchpad doesnt respond well to my commands while trying to move the pointer.
The battery-warning message usually comes along with the touch pad malfunction. I have to press esc several times to restore the touchpad back to normality and close the process application Btrychkr.exe under the CTRL+ALT+DEL menu to make the waning box go away.
But the major and most recently problem are the lockups, especially when running programs that require high video processing such as 3D games and DVDs. The screen freezes for several seconds before it comes back to life. This is sometimes followed by a sudden shut down.
Finally, when I try to turn it on, it doesnt even get to load windows before it shuts down again, and so on. So I have to wait several minutes before pushing the on button again. Now we have reached a critical situation where the computer wont last more than 10 minutes before it automatically shuts down without any previous notice. There are no error messages so I cannot see what the cause of the problem is. (Battery? Overheating?)
Its also important to notice that a friend of mine with a P10 series also had these same problems and eventually had to buy a new one because the laptop got just out of hand. Im afraid mine gets to the same situation.
How can I fix it?
I would really appreciate some help.
Thanks

Hi
You use you notebook since 3 years. Did you replace the battery during this 3years?
No? I think it would be a nice idea to change the battery.
Usually after about 500 times of charging and discharging procedures the battery performance going down and the life time decreases
Additional during these 3 years the notebook should be cleaned. The fans suck the dirt and dust and sometime the cooling modules cannot rotate with full performance and cannot cool the CPU and other devices.
Of course, the overheating could be a reason for your shut down problems
It sounds like you havent much experience so I think someone with more experience (technician) should clean the notebooks cooling modules

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