What's with the blue screen.....

Ok so I went to turn my laptop on a couple days ago and it chimed and did the little circle thing... said it was starting X and then the screen went blue... and stayed blue and did nothing... I restarted... I drained and filled the battery I tried everything I could think of and it won't work... can anyone tell me what might be wrong?
I had the battery replaced just before Christmas but it was working fine since then although I havn't used it much.
Thanks!

Try things in Mac101 (no offense) and Apple doc.#106464 for your startup issue. 106464 has blue screen info.
Also, try using Disk Utility to repair your startup disk (hard drive) as shown in Dr.Smokes Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption as Colin so helpfully suggested.
Smokes link will walk you thru it.
Cheers!
DALE

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