Macbook hanged and now won't turn on

hi
hope i can get some help here
i was running vlc on leopard and when i went and hit the volume up button on the keyboard my white 2007 macbook kept displaying the colorful spinning cursor for a very long time and the computer wasn't responding...
so i turned it off...and when i tried to turn it back on, it won't go past the startup sound and the gray screen...i tried booting from cd but it still won't go past it...on holding the option key at startup, i see the mouse pointer but no startup disk
i dunno what to do coz i am out of warranty too...
any kind of advice would be highly appreciated...
thanks a lot

I have picked up my brand new MBPR on the 4th as well, and last night restarted for the first time after software update ( mavericks ) and after 3 hours hours of grey screen with spinning wheel called APPLE who again never knows what they are talking about because they keep saying " we never heard about that " when I called about the same issue on my 17 inch 2 months ago. So I called 3 times this morning and when I let them know that I am quite " puzzled " that every time I mention a Maverick Issue suddensly my call gets disconnected, and nobody calls me back when THEY SWEAR they took notes of my call bacl number. Last call a few minutes ago, I spoke to a supervisor and talked for 45 minutes about all issues and when he expressed concern about me recording the call I told him " You guys record my calls, so where does it say where I couldn't record yours if I wanted to ? " and the supervisor hung up on me... Way to Go APPLE!!! I've been an apple devotee since I first got my apple lisa in 1984 but they have only been going to " s*** " the last 2-3 years.
So DIGGLY, do like I will this morning and return your purchase!

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