Help an Amiga neophyte get his "new" A1000 up and running (KickStart problem)

[FastRobPlus]

Can you confirm - is this really a Kickstart 3.1 disk?

An Amiga 1000 in its stock configuration will generally take a Kickstart 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 disk.  So a 3.1 disk will not work.

A yellow screen on a 1000 during boot is a kind of error, but if it goes away and you don't see it again, it often just means that the memory became corrupt due to a to-quck power cycle.

[FastRobPlus]

So it appears to be reading the disk (seeking for 20-30 seconds) rather than just looking over the disk and re-displaying the Kickstart prompt?

If so, you may well have a corrupt KS disk.

If it does seem to be reading in:
I'd guess in order of probability, it's either the KS disk, the drive, a poorly seated chip, or bad memory.

There are a former CBM authorized A1000 techs who might be able to chime in with more info.

The easiest t-shooting would be to clean the drive if you have a drive cleaner handy. Opening the box up and pressing all the chips firmly into thier sockets is also free and easy, if a bit time consuming.

If you can't obtain a known good kickstart disk, someone here can probably provide you one. I'm on the other side of the continent, but if you can't source one locally, I can mail you one (send me a PM mail.)

[FastRobPlus]

You are correct.  You get first a kickstart prompt, and once kickstart has loaded, the machine softboots itself and you get a workbench prompt. But I think the issue here is that we aren't getting past the Kikstart load to the Workbench prompt.

@Shaf

The 1000 has 2 CIA chips like every other Amiga right?  If cleaning the drive does not work, would it be worth it to try swapping the CIA chips in thier sockets?  That way, if one were bad, you still have a problem, but it would be a *different* problem, and it would confirm the problem is in the CIA chip?