A305D-S688​6 New Hard Drive - Can't Wake From Sleep, BIOS issue

Well I hope this is the right area and this gets listened to, I use sleep often... >.<
Laptop is a A305D-S6886 Satellite bought from ToshibaDirect.
So I dropped my laptop, and the HDD is busted. No biggy right? So I bought a new one. Spefically this one. It is a Western Digital, my Dell laptop friend used it, good reviews, exact equilivant to the one I use. Great!
So I add it right in, easy enough. Boot up the laptop, install Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. Install all of my software, Toshiba software, copy all files, all updates, etc. It is done!
Go to school next day, and while using laptop it feels funny, like it keeps hanging. Why? It hangs when I try to resume from sleep/standby OR hibernation! That won't do. I do a bit of Googling. Tried that hotfix for 1 TB or bigger SATA hard drives, didn't work. More Googling shows this is an issue with Win7 in the beta/release client, both 32 and 64 bits. Nothing on the RTM or build 7600 except for the 1 TB or bigger SATA hard drives. Hm, maybe the HDD is broken?
With into Ubuntu 9.10 x64 Desktop edition, opened up wonderful thing called "Disk Utility." It said the following: Disk was healthy, no bad sectors, and Self-test past. Well then let's run a through SMART test! I did, and it still passed. Hm, hard drive seems perfect, so what can I do? Fiddle with BIOS settings of course! (I have version 2.10)
So the only option I could find related to SATA or HDDs was SATA mode, which had the follow options: Compatibility or AHCI. It was on AHCI, so let's try Compatibility! That didn't work, still crashed. What is next? Let's install OEM Vista that came with my computer! (Vista SP1 x64 bit)
So yay, it is done! Let's put it to sleep! What's this a crash? Then it is OS independent! Now to decide which hardware it could be: BIOS, or hard drive. Next up: stick it in my desktop and install Windows 7!
So yay, w7 has installed! Put it to sleep, it works fine! Wow what could it be? I didn't have an OEM partition before, because of the new driver, could it have been an update, or maybe the BIOS? Clean install and back on laptop!
3rd W7 install later, it crashes on sleep! OEM and software/drivers is out, so that leaves BIOS! D: This took me 2 days, and I don't think I missed any possibilities. I am pretty technically able and confident, so if you have any idea what else it could be, please reply! I use sleep often! D:
P.S. I want more options in the BIOS! D:
EDIT: Maybe some specs may help:
One of the 1st A305-S6886 made I think:
AMD Turion x2 RM-72 at 2.1 GHz
4 GB DDR2 RAM at 800 mHz (Maybe 667 mHz)
ATI HD 3470 and HD 3200, in "CrossFire"
BIOS version is 2.10
Screen size is 15.4
Chicony WebCam is broken, due to cable tearing in the case (I voided my warrenty D
This exact hard drive
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate currently installed
EDIT 2: Also, it SOMETIMES seems to resume from sleep, specifically after long periods of times in sleep mode.
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Sounds like something else besides the hard drive was "busted" when you dropped it.  Does it do this when you use hybernation as well as when you use sleep?
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

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