Forced restart with long beep; magnified images

A few days ago, my MacBook Air prompted a forced restart - since I was unable to navigate the screen with the cursor, I needed to hold down the power button to force the restart. I held it down once to power off and again to power on. When I powered on, I heard a long beep followed by the startup screen. The screen images are magnified and all desktop items have disappeared. The magnification has made navigation extremely difficult and the computer almost impossible to use. Also, a few weeks ago I found that normal computer use was occasionally interrupted by a flash of blue screen followed by this same magnification phenomenon. At that time, I was able to reboot the computer and resume normal operation but am unable to do so now. Has anyone else experienced this problem and if so, what's causing it and what can be done? Thanks.

try rebooting from the installer DVD -- are you really running Jaguar 10.2.x like your profile says?
It will look like it is getting ready to run the installer; let it continue until you see a menubar across the top of your screen. Under Utilities, open Disk Utility and choose Repair Disk. Once it completes, if it indicates that the "file system was modified," choose Repair Disk again. Do this repetitively until you get no more "file system was modified" messages, then reboot normally (we hope).
If you don't have the installer DVD, reboot holding down the ⌘s keys. With any luck, that will allow you to come up in what is known as single user mode -- a black screen with a bunch of cryptic looking system boot messages. Once (or should I say, if) you get to a user prompt, type /sbin/fsck -fy It should do the same thing as Disk Utility Repair Disk from the Installer DVD. Same provisions about "file system was modified" messages apply, then type /sbin/reboot
I don't think Jaguar's Disk Utility had a "Repair File Permissions" but if it did, do that, too.
With any luck one or the other approaches will solve your issue.
If none of the above works, I think I would be looking for another Mac and a firewire cable, then hook your PBG4 to it, and boot it (the PBG4) up while holding down the "T" key. Once you get the blue screen with yellow firewire symbol on the PBG4, the PBG4 should appear on the other computer's desktop as an external firewire drive. Then I would start salvaging all the Users folder data of importance that I could off of that PBG4 because I think an erase (including write zeros to disk) and reinstall the OS and user accounts and applications might be in your future. Or a visit to the Apple Store's Genius Bar...

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After running and completing the hardware test which is passed..I then booted off the Snow Leopard DVD and ran the Disk Utility and to Repair the Disk and it said the Disk is not repairable..
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