Old AJA KONA card into new Mac Pro.

Hi all
At the company where I am doing some editing, there oldest suite was run on a G5. Suddenly it started to turn itself off. After taking it into an apple store for repair they quite quickly turned around and said "This is an old G5 we can't repair it, but we will replace the machine with a new Mac Pro, for the price of the repair". Great!
However the the KONA LHe card that it was using looks like a normal PCI interface (or PCI-X), and it seems apple have done away with this, as this new model contains only PCIe slots. Is there a way of making it work? Does anyone know if apple do a spec with a PCI slot now? Is this KONA card completely useless now?
I know what the likely answer is, just thought i'd put the discussion out there.
Neil

Sorry Shane. I did mean LH.
I always thought the card in the machine was a LHe card, so when the G5 starting turning itself off unexpectadly, and Apple couldn't repair it, they gave us a new machine for the price of the repair, I thought it would still be fine as the card is an LHe. I didn't know that it was an older model and the earlier generation Kona Cards were PCI-X.
Hey now I know the what e stands for at least. Although in the context of this company the Kona LH card is pretty much Obsolete!
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