Mac mini 2004 stopped working

Hi all,
I have just bought a second hand Mac mini 2004 and was working have taken a copy of the internal hard drive through disk utility, but it went to blue screen and couldn't restart it back up so switched it off and now it doesn't start just stays on a black screen. There is sound coming from the mac the hard drive sounds to work and the optical drive and the light comes on the front too, but no output to the monitor I have tried a new cable and tried a new monitor too.
There was no OS X disc with it and now I have tried to start with the external drive but I am using a windows keyboard and unsure on keys to use.
Hope someone can help really want to start to use a mac.
Regards
Aidan

Hi BDAqua,
Thank you for the response have talked to a mac repair company and they have said it sounds like the graphics card has gone on the logic board and would be unfixable or too much to fix. Is this true? or is this something that can be done by myself?
regards
Aidan

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