The invention discloses a data receiving method applied to a server. The server comprises a management board and at least one mainboard, wherein the management board and the mainboard are electrically connected with each other, and perform data communication by an inter-integrated circuit (I<2>C) protocol. The method comprises the following steps of: initializing a work queue; initializing a network interrupt; when a network card of the mainboard receives data, transmitting the interrupt of the management board by using the mainboard; judging whether the interrupt is the network interrupt; and when the interrupt is the network interrupt, scheduling the work queue to receive a data packet. By the data receiving method provided by the invention, during the network interrupt, only the work queue for receiving the data packet is required to be scheduled in an interrupt function, the interrupt function may return after scheduling the work queue, and the work queue for receiving the data packet may be called at a proper time.