Turning on my MAC

When I turn my IMAC on I get a white screen and a world globe flashing.....after around 5 miuntes my MAC logs in but it does not work perfectly. What can I do?
Thks

When I go to the startup disk, I can restart the MAC OS X or a Network Startup....which should i restart??

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