Severe problems. Comp's going Cattywompus!

[Sephtyan]

My computer is having severe issues revolving around Google Chrome and the internet in general. Here are the issues I'm having with Chrome:

Chrome has stopped saving any kind of data outside of history. For a couple examples, the stuff I wish would really work; any changes I make to the bookmark list will be erased upon re-opening the browser. If I bookmark, say, Google, or VT, or even my favorite porn site, these will not show up the next time I open Chrome. What mystifies me is that when I delete a bookmark, it shows back up the next time I open Chrome. I have wiped my entire bookmark list, closed the browser and opened it, and everything will pop back up.

Moving on to internet...

I am not able to connect to some sites, no matter what browser I use. I've been trying to connect to java.com just so I can update JRE on my comp. I'm stuck at whatever version they last used auto-update for. [I hate that they don't auto-update anymore] Problem is, neither IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or this newfangled RockMelt will connect to java.com. Everything else works fine. There are a handful of other webpages that my comp will refuse to connect to, whatever I do. The error that pops up is the standard "This webpage is not found, check your internet, possibly refresh later" even though everyone knows that refreshing later won't help. Upon my attempts at pinging it through CMD, I get "Destination host unreachable" instead of "request timed out".

One last and only slightly annoying detail is that the process that records what you do with browser windows (i.e. windows explorer, IE, Minecrap) doesn't like Chrome. It refuses to remember the size and location of Chrome's last operation. Every other window pops up at the same size and place that you closed it down in. Chrome always opens in the center of the screen, windowed mode, about 12-15 pixels from each edge, with taskbar in auto-hide.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I run a fossil of a comp, too lazy to look up the exact model #'s of certain parts, but I have a 2.1 GHz mono-core, 1G RAM, Harddrives irrelevant, SoundBlaster ZX audio card, on-board video and an ancient-ass mobo. Last drivers for any of this stuff was in 2000.

[HunterSteele]

I have a 2.1 GHz mono-core, 1G RAM, Harddrives irrelevant, SoundBlaster ZX audio card, on-board video and an ancient-ass mobo. Last drivers for any of this stuff was in 2000.
Forget the hard drive, that was all irrelevant. What OS are you using?

Try uninstalling Chrome and reinstalling it. Not being able to access some sites could be because of malware, so take the appropriate steps to check for that (i.e Malwarebytes, Microsoft Security Essentials.)

[TheMatrix]

Wait. You're using Chrome on an ancient compter? Why would you even do that? I know it sounds weird, but sometimes Netscape is the better way to go. Yes, you heard me right: Netscape.
Get a version that came around around 2000 for your computer, like from here (http://sillydog.org/narchive/).

[Sephtyan]

Forget the hard drive, that was all irrelevant. What OS are you using?

Try uninstalling Chrome and reinstalling it. Not being able to access some sites could be because of malware, so take the appropriate steps to check for that (i.e Malwarebytes, Microsoft Security Essentials.)

I've un- and reinstalled Chrome three times already. It has had no change in performance each time.

[Axw_JD]

Chrome is a total resource hog, with that hardware, is not weird the computer is constantly having problems.

Opera, Internet Explorer or Netscape will do a much better job.

This problem was somewhat common in Windows XP and XP SP1, so I'm guessing ou are using XP. Try resetting Internet Explorer to its factory settings and that should fix the connection problems in general. Also I wouldn't completely ignore the fact that this could be done by some sort of malware that messed up the configuration in the first place to refuse connection to certain pages only.