1. An apparatus for monitoring high impedance failures in system interconnects, comprising: monitoring circuitry located on a chip, comprising: a resistance continuity monitoring circuit (RCMC), wherein the RCMC measures the resistance of a connection of a representative set of pins on the chip with a circuit board, outputting an analog measured resistance data; a signal path connecting the representative set of pins to the RCMC; and a system interface for connecting the RCMC with other system components; wherein the monitoring circuitry converts the analog measured resistance data to digital resistance data and displays the digital resistance data on an output device.