Can't get past white start up screen

Last night my computer crashed, and displayed a blank white screen, so I held in the power on button to restart and after that I have been unable to get past the blank white screen after the apple logo appears. 10 minutes ago however after having the computer unplugged for two hours, I decided to try again, this time it managed to start up abielt slooooowly, but I managed to open up disk utility and use the first aid and repair hard disk and I had enough time to read that something was wrong with OSX and mounting, blah blah blah, already my memory is getting blurry as it all happened so fast as it then crashed again. The last thing I remember downloading was firefox's latest update, has anyone any ideas on what I can do? Thanks in advance

managed to begin restoring of the system through holding down the option button and using time capsule, the screen keeps flickering and if allowed to sleep crashes, this is now the third try, screen flickering and not able to read clearly how much time nor percentage done, seems to be something connected with display, or video drives maybe it is even the flash thing, as I vaguely remember udating adobe flash software also the day before I will keep posting

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