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EDIT:I have heard news of the acekard team splitting apart, so currently the ones that left the team are making their own acekards and the people that stayed on the team are making their OWN acekards as well (real ones)
Quite a few of them are clones(the ones that use actel) and the real ones (no actel chip anymore.) A few of the "clone" ones do not update the bootstrap correctly.
So if you could summarize, the acekard team is basically two teams now making their each own versions of acekards which might cause complications in hardware and compatibility with the firmware updater as the people that left their team do not have access to the development updates of the acekard, such as the 1.4 Bootstrap updater. Therefore, if you have a clone acekard it may brick if it is the "clone" one.
Ok, I have seen countless threads about people getting their AK2i's bricked because they attempted to update their bootloader. First thing is first, determine and find out what HWID you have by running the 1.4 updater. ( DO not Press START to update, this is only to check for fake HWID, as AKAIO is limited to 8 bits (0 to 255), therefore it will not display the clone HWID correctly.)
If you have a HWID 44, 80, etc, it should work with the bootloader. If you have a weird hardware ID, it is most likely a clone. The current HWID's of acekard2i's are as following.
1.4444 aka 44
2.8181 aka 81
3.8888 aka 88
If your AK2i is a clone download this is upgrade it to 1.4 with the r4i updater. download here
Disregard the info If you have read this before, it will confuse you, as I have just updated this guide.
Hopefully this will help everyone.
You can also compare and look at the physical hardware itself to determine a clone or not. This requires taking apart your AK2i which I do NOT recommend.
Refer to this if you want to dissassemble your AK. HERE
Quite a few of them are clones(the ones that use actel) and the real ones (no actel chip anymore.) A few of the "clone" ones do not update the bootstrap correctly.
So if you could summarize, the acekard team is basically two teams now making their each own versions of acekards which might cause complications in hardware and compatibility with the firmware updater as the people that left their team do not have access to the development updates of the acekard, such as the 1.4 Bootstrap updater. Therefore, if you have a clone acekard it may brick if it is the "clone" one.
Ok, I have seen countless threads about people getting their AK2i's bricked because they attempted to update their bootloader. First thing is first, determine and find out what HWID you have by running the 1.4 updater. ( DO not Press START to update, this is only to check for fake HWID, as AKAIO is limited to 8 bits (0 to 255), therefore it will not display the clone HWID correctly.)
If you have a HWID 44, 80, etc, it should work with the bootloader. If you have a weird hardware ID, it is most likely a clone. The current HWID's of acekard2i's are as following.
1.4444 aka 44
2.8181 aka 81
3.8888 aka 88
If your AK2i is a clone download this is upgrade it to 1.4 with the r4i updater. download here
Disregard the info If you have read this before, it will confuse you, as I have just updated this guide.
Hopefully this will help everyone.
You can also compare and look at the physical hardware itself to determine a clone or not. This requires taking apart your AK2i which I do NOT recommend.
Refer to this if you want to dissassemble your AK. HERE
like a 250 dollar kit back when DDR4 was Intel only
