GX740 monitor won't turn on when lid is opened and weird HDD specs?

This is the second GX740 I have received after returning the first one due to a defective hard drive.
I have changed all the power options so that closing the lid does nothing except switch off the lid. However, when I close the lid and reopen it, the screen won't turn back on. The system itself is still on and working though (ie. cpu running, harddrives running) but its just the screen that won't turn on. The only thing I can do is hit the on/off button, which I have set to go to sleep. The funny thing is that when I hit the on/off button again and bring the pc out of sleep mode, the screen will start functioning normally (ie. when I close it and reopen it, the screen will turn on) but if I switch it off or restart it, then the monitor will not turn on when the lid is closed and opened again.
Also another very strange thing I noticed is that although my harddrive is a 320gb 7200rpm WD drive, the model number in Device manager is WD6400BEVT - which I'm guessing is the number for the 640gb drive?! This hasn't caused any problems so far but it seems very odd to me and I am just wary of complications in the future as I returned the first GX740 I got due to a defective harddrive
Also, I have updated windows 7 completely.
Any ideas?

Please consider taking a look at this faq article: http://support.msi.eu/faq/index.php?sid=446722&lang=en&action=artikel&cat=188&id=115&artlang=en
It does seem the same issue and for that you should update the graphic drivers and VBIOS. You can find them here: http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=searchresult&keywords=GX740&table=download
Vbios is under Firmare and VGA drivers under Drivers.
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