My Macbook Pro (2011) freezes after the apple login logo appears. The screen just goes white. Please Help

When i start up the laptop, its proceeds normally with the chime and apple logo, but after that the screen goes white and nothing happens. You can hear the sound from within the machine become louder too.. Sometimes it proceeds to login fully but then there are times that it freezes whilst i am using it. It is currently working now as im typing this.. Please help

I would first try booting into Safe Mode then restarting normally. This will be a longer startup than normal in both safe mode and normal boot. That is normal.
I would then repair your drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
If the problem is not resolved, then create a new admin user account. Set this account for auto-login. Then try restarting the computer.

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