I guess the Station driver link for 8988 FF00 works well for many regions as the supermicro site seems to work okay on my end in the USA
I'll install/update to 8988 FF00 only on a few Win10 x64 PCs and will not install 8988 on the Win7/8.x x64 PCs as that would result with the "windows cannot verify the publisher of this driver software" message on W7/W8 since 8988 is WHQL for Win10 x64 only - I'll continue to stay with 8978 on those few Win7/8.x systems that I have
I'll install/update to 8988 FF00 only on a few Win10 x64 PCs and will not install 8988 on the Win7/8.x x64 PCs as that would result with the "windows cannot verify the publisher of this driver software" message on W7/W8 since 8988 is WHQL for Win10 x64 only - I'll continue to stay with 8978 on those few Win7/8.x systems that I have