The only way to get lion to start is to hold the eject button down, otherwise I just get a white screen. Any cures?

The only way to get lion to start is to hold the eject button down, otherwise I just get a white screen. Any cures?
this is what I'm running on ?
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 12 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)

thanks,
I tried and it worked once, then went back to the white screen, so I'm back to hollding down the eject button.
thank you anyway.
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