Critical temperature after install problem

[bishop]

Hi,
A fiend of mine is having a peculiar problem with his laptop, trying to 
install Ubuntu Warty

Laptop specs:
ACER 1705sci
     * Intel pentium IV 3.06GHz
     * 512MB DDR-SDRAM
     * 120GB 7200rpm Ultra ATA/100 HDD
     * nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600, 64MB
     * IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN
     * DVD/CD-RW Drive
     * Internal Modem SIS 7013
     * Integrated NIC
     * integrated Sound card SIS SI7012

The installation goes without a hitch, at the end of the first part of 
the install, the installer ask to remove the cd for the first reboot; 
The pc reboot, loads some services then he gets this message:

"PCI : cannot allocate resources region of device 0000:00:02.1
Starting Ubuntu
Critical temperature reached (255 c), shutting down. "

It then closes the launched services and shutdown.

The installation was tried with the hyper threading deactivated and 
activated in the BIOS with always the same result.
Passing the "pci=noacpi" option to the installer brings the same result.

The live CD brings a black screen and the shutdown of the machine.

He was able to install Mandrake 9.2, kernel 2.4 and Mandrake 10.0 , 
kernel 2.6 whit out any problems.

At this point were looking any for ideas/pointers.

Thanks for your time
--bishop