Configuration: Boot Code settings
4-20 Dash 3000/4000/5000 2000966-542D
Set Country Selection
Select DEFAULT or FRANCE to choose a particular set of GE factory 
defaults.
1. Activate Boot Code (“Boot Code settings” on page 4-18) and select 
SET CONFIGURATION menu option.
2. Select Country Selection and choose language.
3. Select Exit and wait for the patient monitor to display the message, 
“Writing settings to Flash config mem...”
4. Manually reboot the patient monitor to implement this change.
Set Language
Select Set Language to change the language of the displayed text.
1. Activate Boot Code (“Boot Code settings” on page 4-18) and select 
SET CONFIGURATION menu option.
2. Select the SET LANGUAGE menu option.
3. Select the appropriate language.
4. Manually reboot the patient monitor to display the new language.
French language information
When the patient monitor Locale (language) is set to French_France, 
alarm pause duration is three minutes. Refer to the Alarms chapter in 
the operator’s manual.
Czech, Hungarian, Polish, or Russian language information
Special characters within alarm broadcasts, messages, patient name, site 
name, or location fields that are sent over the optional CARESCAPE 
Network cannot be displayed by equipment that does not support these 
languages. Special characters may appear as either blanks, asterisks, a 
series of square boxes, or no character is displayed at all because the 
ability to display Cyrillic (Russian alphabet) and special Czech, 
Hungarian, or Polish characters does not exist on this equipment.
Chinese and Japanese language information
When the patient monitor Locale (language) is set to Chinese or 
Japanese, the following conditions apply:
 Text for alarm broadcast over the optional network is in English.
 All text input is in English only (e.g., text for unit name, bed name, 
patient information, and custom default name).