PowerEdge 1950 Gen II CPU Upgrade recommendations

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Hello.

I have two PowerEdge 1950 Gen II servers with dual E5335 processors (firmware up-to-date) and I would like to ask for recommendations to upgrade the processors with compliant processors that are capable of power on demand from the bios.

There are up to 3 revisions of this family of server. Private message me the system service tag so that I look up specific information on upgrade path.

Also, I would like to run the OS from a SD card and leave the drive bays exclusively for data. I read about Dell's Internal Dual SD Module but from reviews, I am not sure that this is a reliable option. Thought of going external or else replace the DVD drive.

It is also called Internal Persistent Storage on this family of servers. The device plugs into a USB port inside the system and is bootable with of at least 16 GB.

This post has been edited to reflect supported processors in PowerEdge 1950 II

Any hardware or software issue can trigger a CPU Machine Check error. Review and clear the hardware logs and also ensure that the systems BIOS DRAC/BMC firmware is up to date.

I just got a matched pair Intel Xeon X5365 SLAED 3GHz processors running on my Dell PowerEdge 1950 Gen II.

What I cannot find is the BIOS settings to set the CPUs power management to OS controlled. How can I solve this?