Macbook Hangs on Restart During Mavericks Install, Won't Get Through Post

This is the second time I've posted this and have had no replies from anyone. Here goes again. I tried installing Mavericks over Snow Leopard. Went fine untill the machine rebooted. Now I'm stuck. It doesn't get through Post. To add to the problem is that the screen is cracked and I can't hook up to an external monitor so I'm left in a virtual mess. I've tried all the commands to back out of this mess. The only one that seems to get me anywhere is logging in Verbose Mode. Unfortunately I can only see a small portion of the screen in the left corner and can't get any further. It appears the only way to get beyond this is to get into a terminal screen. If I could, I wouldn't even know where to start cause I don't do any work in Terminal. Any ideas how to get out of this situation and get my machine back?

I think you're right.
If it's hardware related, is it possible to guess at what it might be? It would be nice to know how much I should expect to pay for a repair before actually getting it fixed.

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