Blue screen with cursor on start-up been like it for hours, not changing...? please help

basically a few days ago i had a box pop up saying that my 'start up storage was low. then everything went insanly slow google wouldnt load now of my apps would load, so i thought, just turn it off restart it, thats when the blue screen started. It loads the white screen with apple logo (takes a good 20 mins mind) then just goes blue with a black cursor, i tried to be patient but i left it for 12 hours and no change.
I have tried hold X on start up and nothing also shift key, then tried unplugging everything, still no change. Also changing the screen as i am using a 37 inch, but nothing, i cant put the back up disc in as there is a disc in the drive and it wont eject.. i dont really know what else to do so please can someone give me a hand.
Thanks in advance..
Pad Chandler

Thanks but I was hoping for some advice on whether I could fix the problem myself.
However, do you know roughly how much it would cost to replace the Logic Board or Video GPU? If they are expensive and this is the only solution, might it not be better to buy a cheap monitor instead?
Would it be possible to hook the monitor up to my iMac if I can't see the screen on the host computer?

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