The invention provides a method for refreshing a
BIOS (Basic
Input Output System) in an Itanium platform
operating system. The method comprises the following steps that: 1) an Itanium_
BIOS_update program reads version information of the
BIOS of an existing version, reads original BIOS content and backs up the content as
backup.fd; 2) an original program is compared with a refreshing program, if the refreshing program is consistent with the version of an existing
machine, the program is stopped, a prompt ''now it is already latest version and refreshing is not required'' is output, and if the refreshing program is not consistent with the version of the existing
machine, BIOS ROMs (Read Only Memories) of a CPU (
Central Processing Unit) are subjected to program update one by one; and 3) the program automatically verifies whether the refreshing is successful after all the ROMs are updated, if the refreshing is failed, a prompt ''
upgrade failed'' is output, 1 is selected for returning to the original version, 2 is selected for re-upgrading, if the refreshing is failed again, the operation of returning to the original version is suggested, and if the refreshing is successful, a prompt ''the refreshing is successful, please restart during maintenance and the BIOS of a new version takes effect immediately'' is output. According to the method, the time for BIOS upgrading maintenance by clients on site is greatly shortened, the maintenance efficiency is improved, and the maintenance
downtime cost is reduced.