>> I cannot remember the Asus board, but IIRC the Tyan Tiger has a bios
>> option to view Ecc Error Messages.
> Unfortunately that's pretty much useless.

Why?  After all, it's not as if Windows does anything with ecc errors,
right?

> If I can't see the errors as they happen then by the time I get to
> see them in some BIOS diagnostics screen it's far too late as serious
> damage has probably already happened.

Not if the message was "soft ecc error corrected, SIMM slot nnn", in
which case it serves as an early-warning system for memory going bad.

Of course, who actually brings the machine down to check such things
even semi-regularly?

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