Laptop rebooting or shutting down shortly after poweron?

Hi,
this is my first x86 install of Solaris usually I have it on Sparc. I have tried to install Solaris 10/08 and now have had to revert back to 08/07 which seems slightly more stable on my machine.
Basically I get these errors on startup:
asy0: UART @ 3f8 scratch register: expected 0x5a, got 0xff
Cannot identify UART chip at 3f8After a bit of Google'ing I found nothing conclusive, however the problem maybe related to the ACPI control in the bios which I have no setting for to turn off or on.
A few moments after normal bootup the system will either reset or shutdown completely rendering me with nothing.
I have a slight feeling that this maybe the cause of the computer over-heating as with the earlier version of Solaris it seems to be online for longer then with the latter.
I am quite puzzled by this and do not know what to do and since Google'ing didn't come up with much I'm just worried that I'm gona have to look elsewhere to fine another operating system which will work with my notebook.
The manufacture is Hi-Grade and the model is a C2200 which is a 12" widescreen, 1.7GHz Intel Centrino 512MB of RAM and Intel graphics chip. I don't know if any of that will help some one to help me better but all I can say is that I'm stuggling.
Many thanks for any replies!

The system is running very slowley currently as it's trying to perform an install - sorry I got there before your last post!
Matthias I hope I haven't confused you; I was talking about 2 machines with Vbox:
1. My Desktop running Debian Etch Linux of which I tried Solaris 10 and BSD in it previously whose X servers never loaded
2. My laptop which I'm performing a clean install, I tried Solaris xx/07 was it?? and the latest one xx/08 all posted above sorry I don't remember the versions but is stated in earlier messages. the xx/07 version worked much better for my laptop xx/08 didn't work at all well.
Now I'm onto installing Open Solaris onto my system ISO is recent so probably what 2008.1?? Anyway it's being really slow and has almost frozen the machine? HD light is on and flickering.
- Just got the User screen: brb
[edit]
Ok system's frozen up again I'm sure it'll be a while since my RAM is quite low at 512MB.
Edited by: Johnny_SSH on Apr 1, 2009 11:45 AM

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