White screen MacBook air

Hi my MacBook air has a white screen when power on and then still white not starting OS... ??

Try inserting the disk that came with it and then boot from that while holding down the Option (alt) key and selecting the separate disk. Then use System Report from Disk Utility. If that doesn't do any good, then boot into Safe Mode by pressing f12 while rebooting.

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