Late 2011 17" MBP - Will not boot, eject, or read disk

Hi guys,
My late 2011 17" MBP after having a server error on Mac Recovery, freezing, and being force shut off, now will not boot.
When you power it up, it chimes then goes to a blue screen, indefinitely.
It also will not eject the DVD in it's drive.
I've tried every key combination prior to startup or during startup to try and remedy this, and nothing.
It always boots with a chime then blue screen.
Please help. :3

Ejecting the disk:
Try these various remedies: http://guides.macrumors.com/Force_Eject_a_Stuck_CD_or_DVD
Since your Mac came with Lion installed it may have a recovery partition on the boot disk.
There are two ways boot from the Recovery Partition:
- Hold down the Command-R as you boot.
          This will attempt to boot from the Recovery Partition
          and if that fails it will try to boot using Network Recovery (a slow process).
- If it won’t boot using Command-R then hold down the Option key as you boot.
          Select the Recovery Partition.
Backup: Do you have a recent backup? If not I suggest you create one before proceeding. You might not need it but it is especially important to have a backup whenever your Mac is sick. Post back for instructions for an emergency backup, if needed.
Blue Screen:
From the Recovery Partition you should be able to repair the disk and reïnstall OS X (without erasing you existing data).

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