White screen directly at startup

When I turn on my laptop, directly after the start tone, comes a blank white screen. What should I do?
Tried booting:
Safe mode
Recovery drive
Install disc
HOW TO FIX?

Thanks Carolyn.
tried the lion recovery at startup, but didn't get the OSX Utilities window as described via your llink. got back to re-installing OSX i.e "choose language" instead. restarted again and got back to my desktop after 30 sec delay.

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