My MacBook won't finish booting please help please please

my MacBook Pro won't start. When turn on the apple logo pops out and there's a bar below that runs only 3/10 then suddenly off automatically!!! can someone please tell me what To do ?

Judehanjour,
which model MacBook Pro do you have, and which version of OS X is installed on it?

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