What do I do if I get a blue screen following boot up?

I have a MacBook air pre - Yosemite OS. When I boot it up I get the apple badge and the loading circle and then it switches to a blue screen with the cursor in the top left. I have tried booting and holding D for the hardware test but I get no errors on both long and short tests? Can anyone help?

Yes sorry. It has OS X 10.6 I think. I last back up the data about 4 months ago.
The spec is as follows:
Apple MacBook A1342 13.3" Laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26Ghz, 250GB Hard Drive, 4096Mb RAM

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Consider 10.8 (not 10.7) when it's released, because 10.7 and 10.8 will require a new investment in software and newer third party hardware as it requires newer drivers the old machines won't have. (forced upgrade because of software, really nice of them)
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Time of this report: 12/3/2004, 23:52:51
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Hello,
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Langelier wrote:
Hello,
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