Booting up-no screen-keyboard works

Hi. My first post. My computer has had booting problems for a few days. Battery is fine. Twice, we could hear the ding and the keyboard worked (sound buttons, etc.) but no screen. The start button light does not go on, and the white light on the front blinks. The problem started with a movie disc stuck (since ejected) in the drive. Now, it just starts to boot up with no ding or keyboard response. My husband thinks it's trying to start up on the install disc (which I've not tried). I did try starting it using the apple/option/p/r pressed also; that did not work. I do always shut down when I'm not working for longer periods of time.
Maybe letting it rest a couple of days will have helped.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Welcome to Apple Discussion, mielcat1. About "...trying to start up on the install disc (which I've not tried)," by all means, do try. Boot from the DVD that came with the computer and then run Disk Utility and see if it finds problems with the MBP's hard drive and if it can repair them. Do this sooner rather than later. The more you play around with it in it's current state, the worse could become any disk corruption that may be going on. Good luck.

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