I got almost the exact same thing. The four little lights up front by the friction knob blinked on for just a nanosecond then it was darker than the hole of Calcuta.....or is that, the Whole of Calcuta?? Anyway, I never saw any error codes other than windows telling me that the damn thing had malfunctioned and was unsusable. It did not show up on the Target GUI nor in the control columns in DCS Controller section.