My External USB CD/DVD drive not working while BOOT-UP

I am using HP Pavillion dv6000 series notebook (dv6205us) with Windows Xp 32bit...Actually I have hardware problem...
Actually my internal CD/DVD drive is not working...and I am using External USB CD/DVD drive...its work with windows platform but it cannot detected while booting process...
When I check in BIOS, it doesn't shows "USB CD/DVD Drive" in list...its shows the following options
ATAPI CD/DVD ROM Drive
USB Floppy
USB Diskette on Key
USB Hard Drive
Notebook Hard Drive
Network Adapter
I tried all USB options but it dosen't work. So, please help me in troubleshooting this problem.
And also 1 question:
My system also not supporting 64bit program like Red Hat Enterprises Linux 6. So can you help me find out does my system support 64bit programs. My notebook specification as follows:
CPU: Intel Pentium T2060 @ 1.6GHz (Dual Core)
CPU Instructios: MMX, SSE (1,2,3)
RAM: 2GB
Looking for your quick response.
Thank You.

64 bit instructions not supported:
http://ark.intel.com/products/28021/Intel-Pentium-Processor-T2060-%281M-Cache-1_60-GHz-533-MHz-FSB%2...

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Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2
Device Tree : /PCI0/SATA@1F,2/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:0
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : No
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : Internal
Total Capacity : 149.1 GB (160,041,885,696 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Disk Number : 0
Partition Number : 0
the last thing that i havent done is do a full restart of the computer. that is my last resort. anyone have any ideas on what to do?
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