Amiga 1000 screen gets white after using kickdisk

[amigaksi]

>i tried an original game after the kickstart-disk finished loading. But it won't read from the floppy after it finished reading the kickstartdisk :/

I had a problem with an Amiga 1000 that would read the kickstart disk but not the workbench or other most other disks.  I traced down the problem to be the SEEK mechanism on the floppy drive.  There are the STEP and DIR signals controlled by the CIA chips that perform the seek.  The Kickstart code is sequentially placed on the floppy disk so if the DIR signal is either locked in at 0V or +5V, it will seek only in one direction.  I wound up using the Amiga floppy simulator (http://amiga.krishnasoft.com) with the machine which proved that it was not the CIA (or Paula) chip since it would read the workbench from the simulated disk drive.  

[amigaksi]

>Mine doesn't show the kickstart hand again though, the screen >just stays white, even if make a reset. I've used a1200 >drives when testing btw. But i might try to get an A1010 >drive and try with that.

If you find that it's not the disk drive but the motherboard/chips that has a problem with the DIR signal, you can still make the machine useable using the floppy simulator here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320142495379

This includes a kickstart that uses 1K and allows you to take over the Amiga 1000 from the PC end after the kickstart loads without requiring workbench or any other disks to be loaded.  So even if the DIR signal works only in one direction, the floppy simulator will work as after the mini-kickstart loads, it will reprogram the CIA chips into asynchronous mode that does not use the STEP, DIR, nor SIDE signals.