White screen computer will not boot up

computer starts up to the white screen with the gary apple and spins that's all it does

A few suggestions here that may help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570

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  • HT1758 Power failure in the middle of a software update and not the computer will not boot up.  The computer just has a white screen with a grey apple and just loads non stop.

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    Do you have a backup in the form of a bootable clone or Time Machine? Restore that and then try the update again.
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661

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