Mac Mini Wont Boot up

I've been having issues with my Mac Mini for quite a while now. When I press the power button, the power light turns on and the fans spin up, the CD/DVD drive spins up as well. But I never heard the boot up chime and nothing ever displays on the screen (not even the no operating system found sad face).
At first I thought it was defective CD that was stuck in the drive, though this evening I did finally manage to get that out. Still no joy. I've reset tried the reset options listed in the main troubleshooting pages for the Mac Mini not powering up but still hasn't work.
The computer is out of warranty, and I've worked with computer innards in the past, so I'm not worried about cracking the case if anyone has any suggestions on what may fix this problem.
Thanks,
~Jaren

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
Have you tried a safe start, where you hold the shift key down when you start? Have you tried a start where you hold the alt/option key down, which would be to choose where to boot from? If neither of those work, normally you look to the hard drive causing issues, however, if starting with the alt/option key down doesn't get you anywhere, then the logic board would be suspect. You might want to take it the Genius bar at your local Apple store for diagnosis. If the logic board is bad, you can buy a replacement via the web, or have the Apple store do it.

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