Interfacing MAX7219 with Bus Pirate v3.6

I am currently trying to interface a MAX7219 LED driver with a Bus Pirate 3.6 (Firmware v5.10 (r559) Bootloader v4.4).

Here is the datesheet :www.componentschip.com/.../MAX7219.html

I have the following circuit breadboarded (along with some decoupling caps on the power rail):

Circuit Diagram

I have set up SPI mode as such:
Set speed: 1. 30KHz 2. 125KHz 3. 250KHz 4. 1MHz

(1)>4
Clock polarity: 1. Idle low *default 2. Idle high

(1)>1
Output clock edge: 1. Idle to active 2. Active to idle *default

(2)>1
Input sample phase: 1. Middle *default 2. End

(1)>1
CS: 1. CS 2. /CS *default

(2)>2
Select output type: 1. Open drain (H=Hi-Z, L=GND) 2. Normal (H=3.3V, L=GND)

(1)>2
Ready

Putting the MAX7219 into test mode and turning it off using [0xFF,0xFF] and [0xFF, 0x00] respectively turns all the LEDs on and off as expected. Restarting everything, I then run the following commands to disable character decoding (to use the MAX as a simple LED array drive), set maximum brightness, enable all columns, and finally enable the display:

[0x09,0x00]
[0x0A,0xFF]
[0x0B,0x07]
[0x0C,0x01]

Finally, sending the following eight commands to enable all LEDs akin to what test mode would do does not have any effect, and no LEDs light up;

[0x01, 0xFF]
[0x02, 0xFF]
[0x03, 0xFF]
[0x04, 0xFF]
[0x05, 0xFF]
[0x06, 0xFF]
[0x07, 0xFF]
[0x08, 0xFF]

At any point, I can set or reset test mode and it works as expect, so I'm convinced that SPI communication integrity is not the issue here.

I have tried this with both 5V and 3V3 levels for VCC, with the same results. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong here?