Minecraft not working on windows 8.1?

I just purchased a gaming pc, i downloaded minecraft launcher. When i press play, it loads then just takes me back to the launcher. What can i do? I'm not sure if this has to do with my graphics card since i currently don't have one in since it was broken in shipping. Please help

Added (1). Will, its a desktop so i took the graphics card out and they are shipping me a new one…

Why are you wanting to play Minecraft when the graphics card is broken? Get your money back for the laptop and then worry about Minecraft